Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crawick Bridge	hamlet	Bartholomew
Crickton	school	Bartholomew
Elliock	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Euchan Water	a rivulet	Groome
Euchan Water		Bartholomew
Kello Water	a mountain rivulet	Groome
Mennock Bridge	village	Bartholomew
Minnick Water	a rivulet	Groome
Wanlockhead	a mining village	Groome
Wanlock Water	a stream	Groome

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 Sanquhar 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
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
Eliock	0	1
Kirkconnel	0	2
Wanlockhead	0	2
Leadhills	0	2
Durisdeer	3	3
Enoch	0	2
Morton	1	3
Penpont	0	2
New Cumnock	0	3
Tynron	0	2
Crawfordjohn	0	2
Thornhill	0	2
Keir	0	2
Dalgarnock	0	2
Moniaive	0	2
Muirkirk	0	2
Glencairn	0	2
Glenbuck	0	2
Abington	0	2
Crawford	2	2