Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kinghorn	a coast town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balninto	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Glassmount	an estate, with a modern mansion	Groome
Inchkeith	an island	Groome
Inchkeith	island	Bartholomew
Kilrie	an estate, with a modern mansion	Groome
Kilrie	seat	Bartholomew
Pitteadie Castle	ruin	Bartholomew
Seafield Tower	ruined 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 Kinghorn 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	4
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	2
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Samuel Johnson	Inch Keith and St. Andrews	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
Burntisland	5	2
Linktown	0	2
Abbotshall	0	2
Kirkcaldy	6	2
Inchkeith	0	2
Pathhead	0	1
Newbigging	0	1
Auchtertool	0	2
Dysart	0	2
Gallatown	0	2
Aberdour	5	2
Inchcolm	0	2
West Wemyss	0	2
Cardenden	0	2
Newhaven	0	2
Dalgety	0	2
Lochgelly	0	3
Granton	0	2
Auchterderran	0	2
Leith	0	2