Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cranston	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cakemuir	an ancient castle	Groome
Cakemuir Castle	old historical tower	Bartholomew
Cousland	a village	Groome
Cousland	village	Bartholomew
Edgehead	hamlet	Bartholomew
Edgehead	a hamlet	Groome
Ford	a village	Groome
Lothian Bridge	place	Bartholomew
Oxenfoord Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Oxenfoord Castle	a seat	Groome
Preston Hall	a mansion	Groome
Preston Hall	seat	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 Cranston 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	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
Preston	0	2
Ford	0	2
Pathhead	0	2
Cousland	0	2
Ormiston	2	2
Crichton	0	2
Elphinstone	0	2
Carberry	0	2
Smeaton	0	2
Keith	0	2
Newbattle	5	2
Esk	0	2
Newton Grange	0	2
Dalkeith	8	2
Pencaitland	0	2
Gorebridge	0	2
Lugton	0	2
Fala	0	2
Borthwick	1	2
Tranent	0	2