Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Leuchars	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balmullo	a straggling village	Groome
Earlshall	an ancient mansion	Groome
Guardbridge	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Guard Bridge	a village	Groome
Leuchars Junction	railway station	Bartholomew
Pitcullo	seat	Bartholomew
Pitcullo	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Tents Moor	low sandy tract	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 Leuchars 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.
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	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
Guard Bridge	0	2
Logie	0	3
Dairsie	0	2
Forgan	0	2
Kilmany	0	2
Newport on Tay	0	2
St Andrews	30	3
Kemback	0	2
Ferry Port on Craig	0	3
Blebo	0	2
Pitscottie	0	2
St Leonards	0	2
Broughty Ferry	0	2
Cameron	0	2
Balmerino	2	2
Dundee	19	6
Cupar	9	3
Dudhope	0	1
Hilltown	0	1
Ceres	0	2