Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Inverkeithing	a coast town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bimar	a rocky islet	Groome
Bimar	rocky islet	Bartholomew
Brucehaven	harbour	Bartholomew
Ferry Hill	a peninsula	Groome
Inchgarvie	island	Bartholomew
Inchgarvie	a rocky islet	Groome
Jamestown	a village	Groome
Jamestown	village	Bartholomew
Limekilns	a coast village	Groome
Rosyth Castle	a ruin	Groome
Rosyth Castle	ruin	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 Inverkeithing 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

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
Rosyth	0	2
Hillend	0	2
North Queensferry	0	3
Donibristle	0	2
Inch Garvie	0	2
Dalgety	0	2
Queensferry	10	3
Limekilns	0	2
Dalmeny	0	2
Hopetoun	0	2
Inchcolm	0	2
Crossgates	0	2
Dunfermline	11	2
Mossgreen	0	2
Aberdour	5	2
Dundas	0	2
Charlestown	0	2
Abercorn	2	2
Blackness	0	2
Cramond	0	2