Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Holywood	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broomrig	an estate, with a modern mansion	Groome
Broomrig	seat	Bartholomew
Cowhill Tower	a mansion	Groome
Fourmerkland	a place	Groome
Fourmerkland	old tower	Bartholomew
Gribton	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Gribton House	seat	Bartholomew
Newington	a village	Groome
Newtonairds	a stately mansion, surrounded by thriving plantations	Groome
Portract	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Speddoch	a mansion	Groome

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Isle Toll	0	2
Kirkmahoe	0	2
Duncow	0	2
Terregles	0	2
Dalswinton	0	2
Locharbriggs	0	1
Maxwelltown	0	2
Dumfries	25	2
Amisfield	0	2
Tinwald	0	2
Noblehill	0	2
Auldgirth	0	2
Gasstown	0	2
Nithsdale	0	2
Kirkpatrick Irongay	0	3
Dunscore	0	2
Lochrutton	0	2
Torthorwald	0	2
Troqueer	0	2
Barjarg	0	2