Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Portmoak	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balgedic, Easter and Wester	2 hamlets	Bartholomew
Balgedie	two hamlets	Groome
Bishop's Hill	a hill	Groome
Kinnesswood	a village	Groome
Kinnesswood	village	Bartholomew
Kirkness House	seat	Bartholomew
Kirkness House	a mansion	Groome
Scotlandwell	village	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 Portmoak 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.
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	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
Kinnesswood	0	2
Scotlandwell	0	1
St Serfs	0	1
Loch Leven	0	3
Ballingry	0	2
Kinross	10	2
Kinglassie	0	2
Milnathort	0	2
Leslie	9	2
Gateside	0	3
Auchterderran	0	2
Cardenden	0	2
Blairadam	0	2
Strathmiglo	1	2
Falkland	5	2
Lochgelly	0	3
Orwell	0	2
Arngask	0	2
Cleish	0	2
Glenrothes	0	1