Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Glendevon a parish Groome
Glen Devon valley Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Burnfoot a hamlet, with a woollen spinning-mill Groome
Burnfoot hamlet with woollen spinning-mill 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 Glendevon 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.
Thomas Pennant July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 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
Ochil 0 2
Muckhart 0 3
Fossoway 0 1
Rumblingbridge 0 2
Crook of Devon 0 2
Castle Campbell 0 2
Dollar 2 2
Blairingone 0 2
Wester Aldie 0 2
Auchterarder 0 2
Dunning 0 2
Orwell 0 2
Tillicoultry 1 2
Blackford 0 2
Aberuthven 0 2
Cleish 0 2
Saline 0 1
Milnathort 0 2
Kinross 10 2
Kinkell 0 2