Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kilmarnock	a stream of fair size	Groome
Kilmarnock	a parish containing a large town	Groome
Kilmarnock	a royal and police burgh	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beansburn	village	Bartholomew
Bonnyton	a suburb of Kilmarnock	Groome
Cambuskethan	place with grain mills	Bartholomew
Cambuskethan	a place with extensive grain mills	Groome
Crawfurdland Castle	a mansion	Groome
Crookedholm	a village	Groome
Dean	ruined seat	Bartholomew
Grougar	hamlet	Bartholomew

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 Kilmarnock 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.
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	1
James Boswell	October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire	1
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	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
Riccarton	0	2
Crookedholm	0	2
Hurlford	0	2
Crosshouse	0	2
Kilmaurs	1	2
Craigie	0	2
Fenwick	0	2
Dundonald	0	2
Galston	0	2
Dreghorn	0	2
Cunninghame	0	2
Stewarton	0	2
Symington	0	2
Perceton	0	2
Irvine	10	4
Newmilns	0	2
Tarbolton	1	2
Fullarton	0	2
Dunlop	0	2
Monkton	0	3