Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Graitney	parish	Bartholomew
Gretna or Graitney	a Border village and parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Browhouses	a village and a bay	Groome
Camphouse	place supposed to have been site of Roman fort	Bartholomew
Camphouse	a place	Groome
Mount Pleasant	school	Bartholomew
Rigg	village	Bartholomew
Springfield	village	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 Gretna 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.
George Head	The Solway Coast	6

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
Kirkandrews Nether	0	1
Solway Moss	0	1
Browhouses	0	2
Kirkpatrick Fleming	0	1
Castletown	0	2
Kirkandrews Middle	0	1
Longtown	0	2
Beck	0	2
Rockcliffe	1	2
Half Morton	0	2
Westlinton	0	2
Dykesfield	0	2
Longburgh	0	2
Beaumont	0	2
Kirkandrews upon Esk	0	2
Burgh By Sands	3	2
Dornock	0	2
Netherby	0	2
Drumburgh	0	2
Arthuret	0	1