Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Auchinleck	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Catrine House	a mansion	Groome
Commondyke	mining village	Bartholomew
Commondyke	a collier hamlet	Groome
Cronberry	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Cronberry	a village of recent origin	Groome
Dalblair	place	Bartholomew
Dernconner	village	Bartholomew
Dernconner	a large village of recent growth	Groome
Gass Water	affluent	Bartholomew
Glenmore Water	a stream	Groome
Glenmuir	school	Bartholomew
Kyle	an ancient castle and a district	Groome
Kyle Castle	remains	Bartholomew
Lugar	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Lugar	a village	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 Auchinleck 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	October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire	8
Samuel Johnson	South to Glasgow and Auchinleck	3
James Boswell	October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray	2
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	1
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	1
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	1
James Boswell	November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh	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
Old Cumnock	3	5
Lugar	0	2
Ochiltree	1	2
Sorn	0	2
Catrine	0	2
Airds Moss	0	2
Kyle	0	2
Mauchline	2	2
New Cumnock	0	3
Drongan	0	2
Stair	0	2
Coylton	0	2
Tarbolton	1	2
Muirkirk	0	2
Newmilns	0	2
Darvel	0	3
Galston	0	2
Craigie	0	2
Dalmellington	0	2
St Quivox	0	2