Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dirleton	a village and a coast parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Archerfield	seat	Bartholomew
Archerfield	a seat	Groome
Congalton	an ancient barony	Groome
Eyebroughty (or Ibris)	islet	Bartholomew
Eyebroughy or Ibris	a basaltic islet	Groome
Fenton Barns	the farm	Bartholomew
Fidra	island	Bartholomew
Fidra or Fetheray	a rocky basaltic islet	Groome
Gullane	village	Bartholomew
Gullane	a village	Groome
Gullane Point	a low basaltic headland	Groome
Kingston	place with school	Bartholomew
Kingston	a village, with a public school	Groome
Lamb Island	island	Bartholomew
Muifield	seat	Bartholomew
Muirfield	a mansion	Groome
West Fenton	hamlet	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 Dirleton 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.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	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
Gullane	0	2
North Berwick	4	2
Drem	0	2
Aberlady	0	2
Athelstaneford	1	2
Auldhame	0	1
Tantallon	0	2
Whitekirk	0	2
Prestonkirk	0	2
Bass Rock	0	2
Smeaton	0	2
Haddington	10	2
East Linton	0	3
Longniddry	0	2
Tyninghame	0	2
Gladsmuir	0	2
Morham	0	2
Seton	0	2
Whittinghame	0	2
Penston	0	1