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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Kinghorn. You may be able to find further references to Kinghorn in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Kinghorn | a coast town | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Kinghorn.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Balninto | an estate, with a mansion | Groome |
Glassmount | an estate, with a modern mansion | Groome |
Inchkeith | an island | Groome |
Inchkeith | island | Bartholomew |
Kilrie | an estate, with a modern mansion | Groome |
Kilrie | seat | Bartholomew |
Pitteadie Castle | ruin | Bartholomew |
Seafield Tower | ruined seat | Bartholomew |
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 Kinghorn 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth | 4 |
John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 2 |
William Camden | Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall | 1 |
Samuel Johnson | Inch Keith and St. Andrews | 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 |
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Burntisland | 5 | 2 |
Linktown | 0 | 2 |
Abbotshall | 0 | 2 |
Kirkcaldy | 6 | 2 |
Inchkeith | 0 | 2 |
Pathhead | 0 | 1 |
Newbigging | 0 | 1 |
Auchtertool | 0 | 2 |
Dysart | 0 | 2 |
Gallatown | 0 | 2 |
Aberdour | 5 | 2 |
Inchcolm | 0 | 2 |
West Wemyss | 0 | 2 |
Cardenden | 0 | 2 |
Newhaven | 0 | 2 |
Dalgety | 0 | 2 |
Lochgelly | 0 | 3 |
Granton | 0 | 2 |
Auchterderran | 0 | 2 |
Leith | 0 | 2 |