Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
St Andrews	a parish containing a royal burgh	Groome
St Andrews	a royal burgh, market, and university town, and a seaport	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balmungo	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Balone	a hamlet	Groome
Balone	hamlet	Bartholomew
Boarhills	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Boarhills	a village	Groome
Brownhills	hamlet	Bartholomew
Brownhills	a hamlet	Groome
Buddo	a remarkable rock	Groome
Denbrae	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Grange	a hamlet	Groome
Grange	village	Bartholomew
Kincaple	village	Bartholomew
Kincaple	an estate, with a mansion and a village	Groome
Kingask	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Kingask	seat	Bartholomew
Kinkell	seat	Bartholomew
Kinkell	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Magus Moor	former moor, now reclaimed	Bartholomew
Magus Muir	a tract	Groome

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 St Andrews 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	8
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	5
Samuel Johnson	Inch Keith and St. Andrews	4
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	2
Samuel Johnson	Arbroath and Montrose	2
Samuel Johnson	Aberdeen	2
James Boswell	August 14th to 17th, 1773: In Edinburgh	1
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	1
James Boswell	September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye	1
William Camden	Middlesex and London	1
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VI: The Life of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel	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
St Leonards	0	2
Cameron	0	2
Guard Bridge	0	2
Dunino	0	3
Leuchars	1	2
Blebo	0	2
Dairsie	0	2
Kemback	0	2
Kingsbarns	0	2
Pitscottie	0	2
Largo Ward	0	2
Carnbee	0	2
Logie	0	3
Ceres	0	2
Forgan	0	2
Ferry Port on Craig	0	3
Kilmany	0	2
Innergellie	0	2
Balcomie	0	2
Kilrenny	0	2