Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Duns. You may be able to find further references to Duns in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dunse or Duns		Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Duns.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bridgend	village	Bartholomew
Bridgend	a village	Groome
Cockburnlaw	a conspicuous hill	Groome
Cockburnlaw	conical hill	Bartholomew
Cumledge	seat	Bartholomew
Kidshielhaugh	seat	Bartholomew
Manderston	seat	Bartholomew
Manderston	a fine modern mansion	Groome
Millburn		Bartholomew
Wedderburn Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Wedderburn Castle	a Grecian mansion	Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Duns within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Gavinton	0	2
Langton	0	2
Preston	0	1
Edrom	0	2
Fogo	0	2
Polwarth	0	2
Bunkle	0	2
Merse	0	2
Blacksmill	0	2
Allanton	0	2
Swinton	0	2
Abbey St Bathans	0	2
Whitsome	0	2
Chirnside	0	2
Auchencrow	0	2
Longformacus	0	2
Hilton	0	2
Greenlaw	0	2
Houndwood	0	2
Grantshouse	0	2