Place:


Largo Fife

 

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Largo a parish containing two villages Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Backmuir village Bartholomew
Balcruvie or Pitcruvie an ancient castle, now reduced to one square tower Groome
Drummochy a village Groome
Drumochie coastal village Bartholomew
Gilston, New (Backmuir of) village Bartholomew
Hatton Law village Bartholomew
Hatton Law a hamlet Groome
Lower Largo village Bartholomew
Lundin Mill and Drumochie village with railway station Bartholomew
Norries Law tumulus Bartholomew
Tamsford or Thomsford a hamlet Groome
Upper Largo village Bartholomew
Woodside hamlet Bartholomew
Woodside a hamlet 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 Largo 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.
Thomas Pennant Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray 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
Drummochy 0 2
Newburn 0 2
Scoonie 0 2
Leven 0 4
Colinsburgh 0 2
Largo Ward 0 2
Methil 0 2
Kilconquhar 0 2
Earlsferry 0 2
Kennoway 0 2
Elie 0 2
Ceres 0 2
Buckhaven 0 2
Cameron Bridge 0 2
Scotstarvit 0 2
Pitscottie 0 2
Cameron 0 2
Cults 0 2
St Monance 0 3
Milton of Balgonie 0 2