Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Yester	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castle Law	hill	Bartholomew
Castle-Law	a hill	Groome
Castles	hill, with ancient camp	Bartholomew
Duncanlaw	an ancient chapelry	Groome
Duncanlaw	ancient chapelry	Bartholomew
Gifford	a village	Groome
Gifford	village	Bartholomew
Lammer Law	a mountain	Groome
Longnewton	a hamlet	Groome
Longyester	hamlet with school	Bartholomew
Newton Hall	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Newton 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 Yester 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 11: South-Eastern Scotland	9
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	2
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	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
Gifford	0	2
Bolton	0	2
Saltoun	0	2
Humbie	0	2
Morham	0	2
Keith	0	2
Garvald	0	2
Haddington	10	2
Pencaitland	0	2
Soutra	0	2
Fala	0	2
Gladsmuir	0	2
Penston	0	1
Whittinghame	0	2
Channelkirk	0	2
Athelstaneford	1	2
Byrecleugh	0	2
Ormiston	2	2
Prestonkirk	0	2
Stenton	0	2