Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cullalo Hills		Bartholomew
Cuttlehill	a mansion	Groome
Cuttlehill	seat	Bartholomew
Donibristle Colliery	a village, with a public school	Groome
Donibristle Colliery	village	Bartholomew
Hillside	seat	Bartholomew
Inchcolm	an island	Groome
Wemyss Square	part of	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 Aberdour 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	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
Dalgety	0	2
Inchcolm	0	2
Donibristle	0	2
Burntisland	5	2
Hillend	0	2
Mossgreen	0	2
Crossgates	0	2
Auchtertool	0	2
Newbigging	0	1
Inverkeithing	4	2
Cowdenbeath	0	2
North Queensferry	0	3
Inch Garvie	0	2
Kinghorn	8	2
Rosyth	0	2
Lochgelly	0	3
Cramond	0	2
Dalmeny	0	2
Queensferry	10	3
Granton	0	2