Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kilmaurs	a small town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Craig	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Craig, The	seat	Bartholomew
Crosshouse	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Crosshouse	a village	Groome
Elderslie and Fardlehill	village	Bartholomew
Gatehead	mining village with railway station	Bartholomew
Gatehead	a collier village	Groome
Jock's Thorn	farm	Bartholomew
Knockentiber	seat	Bartholomew
Knockintiber	a village	Groome
Thorntoun House	a mansion	Groome
Tour	seat	Bartholomew
Tour	a mansion	Groome
Towerhill House	a mansion	Groome
Towerhill House	seat	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 Kilmaurs 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	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
Crosshouse	0	2
Kilmarnock	5	4
Cunninghame	0	2
Stewarton	0	2
Riccarton	0	2
Crookedholm	0	2
Fenwick	0	2
Perceton	0	2
Hurlford	0	2
Dreghorn	0	2
Dundonald	0	2
Dunlop	0	2
Craigie	0	2
Irvine	10	4
Fullarton	0	2
Galston	0	2
Symington	0	2
Kilwinning	0	2
Blair	0	2
Newmilns	0	2