Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Moffat	a town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Annandale's Beef-Stand, Marquis of, or Devil's Beef Tub	a strange conchoidal hollow	Groome
Annandale's Beef Stand, or Tub	a singular abyss	Bartholomew
Beld Craig	a romantic dell	Groome
Beld Craig	romantic dell	Bartholomew
Blacklaw	a ruined tower	Groome
Blacklaw	a ruined tower	Bartholomew
Blackshope	a burn	Groome
Chapel	a farm	Groome
Cloffin	a burn	Groome
Cloffin	rivulet	Bartholomew
Craigieburn	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Dumcrieff	a handsome mansion	Groome
Giant's Grave	hollow	Bartholomew
Grey Mare's Tail	a splendid waterfall	Groome
Grey Mare's Tail	celebrated waterfall	Bartholomew
Moffat Water		Bartholomew
Saddle Yoke	mountain	Bartholomew
Skene, Loch	a dark and lonely lake	Groome
White Coomb	mountain	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 Moffat 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	September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Beattock	0	2
Kirkpatrick Juxta	0	2
Wamphray	0	2
Johnstone	0	3
Garvald	0	2
Kirkmichael	0	2
Eskdalemuir	0	2
Hutton	0	2
Applegarth	0	2
Durisdeer	3	3
Tweedsmuir	0	2
Crawford	2	2
Morton	1	3
Ettrick	0	2
Enoch	0	2
Crook	0	2
Leadhills	0	2
Wanlockhead	0	2
Lochmaben	0	2
Thornhill	0	2