Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Caerlaverock	a coast parish	Groome
Carlaverock		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bankend	village	Bartholomew
Blackshaw	a village	Groome
Conheath	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Glencaple	a seaport village	Groome
Glencaple	village	Bartholomew
Glenhowan	village	Bartholomew
Greenhead	a village	Groome
Greenmill	village	Bartholomew
Hutton Hall	school	Bartholomew
Hutton Lodge		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 Caerlaverock 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	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	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
Glencaple	0	2
Blackshaw	0	2
Cockpool	0	2
New Abbey	0	2
Mouswald	0	2
Troqueer	0	2
Ruthwell	1	2
Gasstown	0	2
Noblehill	0	2
Kirkbean	0	2
Dumfries	25	2
Maxwelltown	0	2
Torthorwald	0	2
Dalton	0	2
Cummertrees	0	2
Preston	0	2
Locharbriggs	0	1
Terregles	0	2
Lochrutton	0	2
Hightae	0	2