Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ruthwell	a village and a coast parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brow	village	Bartholomew
Brow	a decayed village	Groome
Clarencefield	a village	Groome
Clarencefield	village	Bartholomew
Cockpool	an old castle, reduced now to the merest vestiges	Groome
Cockpool	remnant of old fortalice	Bartholomew
Comlongan	an ancient castle	Groome
Comlongan Castle	ancient stronghold	Bartholomew
Crossgills	a hamlet	Groome
Margaretsfield	village	Bartholomew
Margaretsfield	a village	Groome
Pichills	hamlet	Bartholomew
Piehills	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 Ruthwell 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.
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	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
Cockpool	0	2
Cummertrees	0	2
Blackshaw	0	2
Mouswald	0	2
Dalton	0	2
Caerlaverock	3	3
Hoddom	0	2
St Mungo	0	2
Brydekirk	0	3
Annan	7	6
Glencaple	0	2
Bengall	0	2
Hightae	0	2
Ecclefechan	0	2
Bowness	7	2
Heck	0	2
Torthorwald	0	2
Gasstown	0	2
Dornock	0	2
Skinburness Marsh	0	2