Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Portpatrick	a Wigtownshire village and parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cairnpat or Cairnpiat	a hill	Groome
Castle	a small bay	Groome
Colfin	a station	Groome
Colfin	glen and station	Bartholomew
Craigoch	a burn	Groome
Dunskey	an old castle	Groome
Enoch	a hamlet	Groome
Enoch	hamlet	Bartholomew
Enock	school	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 Portpatrick 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 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	2

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
Rhinns	0	3
Stranraer	1	2
Stoneykirk	0	2
Leswalt	0	2
Soulseat	0	3
Castle Kennedy	0	2
Inch	0	2
Innermessan	0	2
Loch Ryan	0	3
Kirkcolm	0	3
Cairnryan	0	2
Dunragit	0	2
Corsewall	0	2
Old Luce	0	4
New Luce	0	4
Stairhaven	0	1
Kirkmaiden	0	4
Glenapp	0	3
Drummore	0	3
Ballantrae	0	2