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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Annan. You may be able to find further references to Annan in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Annan | a river | Groome |
Annan | a royal and parliamentary burgh | Groome |
Annan | river | Bartholomew |
Annandale | the middle one of the three divisions of Dumfriesshire | Groome |
Annandale | division of Dumfries-shire | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Annan.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Battle-Hill | eminence | Bartholomew |
Battle-Hill | an eminence | Groome |
Bonshaw Tower | an old mansion | Groome |
Crea, or Creca | village | Bartholomew |
Howgill | village | Bartholomew |
Howgill | a village | Groome |
Kenziels | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Kenziels | a hamlet | Groome |
Lochfield | a hamlet | Groome |
Mount Annan | seat | Bartholomew |
Mount-Annan | a mansion, with beautiful grounds | Groome |
Northfield | seat | Bartholomew |
Northfield | an estate, with an elegant mansion | Groome |
Warmanbie | seat | Bartholomew |
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 Annan 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland | 3 |
George Head | Carlisle and the Solway Firth | 2 |
William Camden | Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall | 1 |
Robert Gammage | To Scotland in 1843 | 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 |
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Dornock | 0 | 2 |
Brydekirk | 0 | 3 |
Cummertrees | 0 | 2 |
Bowness | 7 | 2 |
Port Carlisle | 3 | 2 |
Hoddom | 0 | 2 |
Kirtlebridge | 0 | 2 |
Irving | 0 | 2 |
Ecclefechan | 0 | 2 |
Browhouses | 0 | 2 |
Eaglesfield | 0 | 2 |
Birrens | 0 | 2 |
Kirkpatrick Fleming | 0 | 1 |
Whitrigg | 0 | 1 |
Ruthwell | 1 | 2 |
Middlebie | 0 | 2 |
Drumburgh | 0 | 2 |
Kirkconnel | 0 | 2 |
Dalton | 0 | 2 |
St Mungo | 0 | 2 |