Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dunbar	a town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barns, East	village	Bartholomew
Barns, East and West	two villages	Groome
Barns. West	village	Bartholomew
Beltonford	hamlet	Bartholomew
Broxmouth	a seat	Groome
Brunt	hill	Bartholomew
Lochend House	seat	Bartholomew
Lochend House	a seat	Groome
West Barns	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 Dunbar 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 11: South-Eastern Scotland	8
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	2
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	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
Broxmouth	0	2
Spott	0	2
Belton	0	2
Innerwick	0	2
Tyninghame	0	2
Stenton	0	2
Smeaton	0	2
Whitekirk	0	2
East Linton	0	3
Whittinghame	0	2
Auldhame	0	1
Prestonkirk	0	2
Tantallon	0	2
Oldhamstocks	0	2
Dunglass	0	2
Bass Rock	0	2
Garvald	0	2
Cove	0	2
Cockburnspath	2	1
North Berwick	4	2