Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Culross	a small town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blairburn	a village	Groome
Blairburn	village	Bartholomew
Bogside	a station and a post office	Groome
Comrie	hamlet	Bartholomew
Comrie	a hamlet	Groome
Dunimarle	seat	Bartholomew
Dunimarle	an estate	Groome
East Grange	railway station	Bartholomew
Oakley	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Valleyfield House	a handsome and commodious mansion	Groome
Valleyfield 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 Culross 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	3
William Camden	Scotland: North 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
Blairburn	0	2
Valleyfield	0	2
Torryburn	0	2
Boness	2	3
Grangepans	0	2
Bridgeness	0	2
Tulliallan	0	2
Oakley	0	2
Blair	0	1
Carriden	0	2
Kincardine on Forth	0	2
Kinneil	0	2
Cairneyhill	0	2
Carnock	0	2
Grangemouth	0	2
Kilbagie	0	2
Saline	0	1
Kennet	0	2
Kennetpans	0	2
Charlestown	0	2