Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Durisdeer	a village and a parish	Groome
Durisdeer	village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Drumlanrig Castle	a seat	Groome
Enoch	barony	Bartholomew
Enoch	a barony	Groome
Enterkin	a troutful burn	Groome
Enterkin	stream	Bartholomew
Enterkinfoot	hamlet	Bartholomew
Enterkinfoot	a hamlet	Groome
Farthingbank	a hamlet	Groome
Maar or Park Burn	a rivulet	Groome
Mar Burn	stream	Bartholomew
Park Burn		Bartholomew
Tibbers	an ancient castle	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 Durisdeer 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 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	3

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
Enoch	0	2
Morton	1	3
Thornhill	0	2
Wanlockhead	0	2
Penpont	0	2
Dalgarnock	0	2
Eliock	0	1
Keir	0	2
Leadhills	0	2
Closeburn	0	2
Sanquhar	2	2
Barjarg	0	2
Tynron	0	2
Kirkpatrick Juxta	0	2
Nithsdale	0	2
Moniaive	0	2
Auldgirth	0	2
Kirkconnel	0	2
Crawford	2	2
Beattock	0	2