Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Coldingham	a village and a coast parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abb's Head, St	a bold rocky promontory	Groome
Ale	a rivulet	Groome
Ale Water	affluent	Bartholomew
Auchincraw	a village	Groome
Auchincraw	village	Bartholomew
Coldinghamshore	fishing village	Bartholomew
Coldingham Shore	a fishing village	Groome
Ernsheugh	eminence with Caledonian camp	Bartholomew
Fairlaw	seat	Bartholomew
Fairlaw	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Fast Castle	a ruinous sea-fortress	Groome
Grantshouse	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
Grant's House	a hamlet	Groome
Renton	school	Bartholomew
Renton House	a mansion	Groome
Reston	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Reston	a village	Groome
St Abb's Head	bold rocky promontory	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 Coldingham 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	5
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	2
Thomas Pennant	July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed	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
Reston	0	2
Eyemouth	2	2
Ayton	0	2
Houndwood	0	2
Auchencrow	0	2
Burnmouth	0	2
Grantshouse	0	2
Chirnside	0	2
Foulden	0	2
Mordington	2	2
Lamberton	0	2
Old Cambus	0	2
Bunkle	0	2
Merse	0	2
Allanton	0	2
Hutton	0	2
Edrom	0	2
Halidon Hill	0	2
Cockburnspath	2	1
Cove	0	2