Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Renfrew	a parish containing a town	Groome
Renfrew	a market town, port, and royal burgh, and the county town of Renfrewshire	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Anniesland	village	Bartholomew
Bleary's Cross	a quondam monument	Groome
Blythswood	an estate, with the seat	Groome
Clydebank	a village	Groome
Jordanhill	village	Bartholomew
Newton	a village	Groome
Newton	village	Bartholomew
Scotstown	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Yoker	village with railway station	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 Renfrew 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.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	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
Yoker	0	2
Inchinnan	0	2
Clydebank	0	2
Jordanhill	0	2
Paisley	15	2
Dalmuir	0	2
Govan	0	2
Dawsholm	0	3
Garscadden	0	2
Duntocher	0	2
Bearsden	0	2
Partick	0	1
Balgray	0	1
New Kilpatrick	0	2
Maryhill	0	2
Bellahouston	0	2
Hillhead	0	1
Abbey	0	2
Hurlet	0	2
Old Kilpatrick	1	2