Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kilbarchan a parish containing a town Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Balaklava village Bartholomew
Bride's Burn a burn Groome
Clippens, or Clippens Square village Bartholomew
Clochoderick huge isolated rock Bartholomew
Craigends an estate, with an old mansion Groome
Merchiston house Bartholomew
Merchiston House a mansion Groome
Milliken a mansion Groome
Ranfurly 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 Kilbarchan 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.
Robert Gammage Ayrshire and Renfrewshire 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
Johnstone 0 2
Crosslee 0 2
Howwood 0 2
Bridge of Weir 0 3
Houston 0 4
Linwood 0 2
Elderslie 0 2
Lochwinnoch 0 2
Auchenbathie 0 2
Abbey 0 2
Kilmacolm 0 2
Erskine 0 2
Paisley 15 2
Bishopton 0 2
Neilston 0 2
Gateside 0 2
Langbank 0 2
Inchinnan 0 2
Beith 1 2
Dunglass 0 2