Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bin	a conspicuous hill	Groome
Grange	an estate	Groome
Grange	estate	Bartholomew
Knockdavie Castle	ruin	Bartholomew
Orrock Hill	hill	Bartholomew
Rossend Castle	ancient mansion	Bartholomew
Starleyburn	hamlet and stream	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 Burntisland 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 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	2
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
Kinghorn	8	2
Aberdour	5	2
Newbigging	0	1
Auchtertool	0	2
Inchcolm	0	2
Dalgety	0	2
Linktown	0	2
Inchkeith	0	2
Abbotshall	0	2
Kirkcaldy	6	2
Donibristle	0	2
Granton	0	2
Mossgreen	0	2
Hillend	0	2
Pathhead	0	1
Lochgelly	0	3
Newhaven	0	2
Cowdenbeath	0	2
Crossgates	0	2
Cardenden	0	2