Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crail	a seaport town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Airdrie	an estate with a mansion	Groome
Airdrie	seat	Bartholomew
Balcomie	an ancient castle, a farm-house now	Groome
Barns	an ancient baronial fortalice	Groome
Barns	ancient baronial edifice	Bartholomew
Carr	a reef	Groome
Castlehaven	the stronghold of Sir Neil Cunningham	Groome
Fife Ness	a low headland	Groome
Kingsmuir	seat	Bartholomew
Kirkmay	a large and handsome mansion	Groome
Kirkmay	seat	Bartholomew
Wormistone House	a fine old mansion	Groome
Wormistone House	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 Crail 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	2

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
Balcomie	0	2
Fife Ness	0	2
Innergellie	0	2
Kilrenny	0	2
Kingsbarns	0	2
Cellardyke	0	2
Anstruther Easter	0	1
Anstruther	0	2
Anstruther Wester	0	1
Dunino	0	3
Pittenweem	1	2
Carnbee	0	2
the Isle of May	0	2
St Monance	0	3
St Leonards	0	2
Kilconquhar	0	2
Cameron	0	2
St Andrews	30	3
Elie	0	2
Colinsburgh	0	2