Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burnmouth	a fishing village	Groome
Burnmouth	fishing village with railway station	Bartholomew
Flemington	a village	Groome
Gunsgreen	a mansion	Groome
Gunsgreen House	seat	Bartholomew
Netherbyres	seat	Bartholomew
Peelwalls	seat	Bartholomew
Summerhill	place with church	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 Ayton 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.
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	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
Burnmouth	0	2
Eyemouth	2	2
Reston	0	2
Foulden	0	2
Mordington	2	2
Coldingham	5	2
Lamberton	0	2
Chirnside	0	2
Auchencrow	0	2
Hutton	0	2
Halidon Hill	0	2
Houndwood	0	2
Allanton	0	2
Berwick upon Tweed	33	3
Merse	0	2
Loanend	0	1
Edrom	0	2
Hilton	0	2
Horncliffe	0	2
Bunkle	0	2