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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wemyss. You may be able to find further references to Wemyss in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Wemyss | a parish | Groome |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wemyss.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Boreland | a collier village | Groome | Buckhaven | a large fishing village | Groome | Buckhaven | fishing town | Bartholomew | Coalton | a village | Groome | Coaltown | coastal village | Bartholomew | East Wemyss | coastal village | Bartholomew | Kirkland | a village | Groome | Kirkland | village with flax spinning-mills | Bartholomew | Methil | seaport village | Bartholomew | Methil | a seaport village | Groome | Methilhill | village | Bartholomew | Methil Hill | a village | Groome | Wemyss Castle | railway station | Bartholomew | Wemyss, East | village with railway station | Bartholomew | Wemyss, East | a village | Groome | Wemyss, West | a small town | Groome |
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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 Wemyss 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 | 5 | William Camden | Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall | 1 |
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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 |
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East Wemyss | 0 | 2 |
Buckhaven | 0 | 2 |
West Wemyss | 0 | 2 |
Cameron Bridge | 0 | 2 |
Milton of Balgonie | 0 | 2 |
Thornton | 0 | 2 |
Methil | 0 | 2 |
Gallatown | 0 | 2 |
Dysart | 0 | 2 |
Kennoway | 0 | 2 |
Markinch | 0 | 2 |
Leven | 0 | 4 |
Pathhead | 0 | 1 |
Scoonie | 0 | 2 |
Glenrothes | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 6 | 2 |
Abbotshall | 0 | 2 |
Linktown | 0 | 2 |
Leslie | 9 | 2 |
Drummochy | 0 | 2 |