Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beith	a market town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barrmill	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Boghall	a property, with the bed of a drained lake	Groome
Burnhouse	village	Bartholomew
Caldwell	seat	Bartholomew
Gateside	a village	Groome
Gateside	village	Bartholomew
Giffen Castle	old ruined seat	Bartholomew
Hessilhead Castle	old ruin	Bartholomew
Morishill	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Morrishill	seat	Bartholomew
Woodside	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 Beith 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.
Robert Gammage	Ayrshire and Renfrewshire	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
Glengarnock	0	2
Kilbirnie	0	2
Lochwinnoch	0	2
Auchenbathie	0	2
Dunlop	0	2
Dalry	0	2
Blair	0	2
Howwood	0	2
Cunninghame	0	2
Kilbarchan	1	2
Stewarton	0	2
Kilwinning	0	2
Johnstone	0	2
Bridge of Weir	0	3
Crosslee	0	2
Neilston	0	2
Elderslie	0	2
Perceton	0	2
Linwood	0	2
Fairlie	0	2