Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Campsie	a hamlet and a parish	Groome
Campsie Fells	a portion of the Lennox Hills, or a range of heights	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Antermony	hamlet, seat, and small lake	Bartholomew
Antermony House	a mansion	Groome
Bancleroche or Kirkton	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Bancleroche, or Kirkton	seat	Bartholomew
Birdstone	a village	Groome
Birdstone	village	Bartholomew
Blane Valley Railway	a railway	Groome
Cannerton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cannerton	a hamlet	Groome
Castle	hamlet	Bartholomew
Castle	a hamlet	Groome
Craigbarnet	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Craigend	a hamlet and a moor	Groome
Craighead	school	Bartholomew
Dumbreck	a hill	Groome
Glorat	a mansion	Groome
Glorat	seat	Bartholomew
Haughhead	village	Bartholomew
Haughhead	a village	Groome
Kcaid House	a mansion	Groome
Kincaid House	seat	Bartholomew
Kirkton (or Campsie) Glen	glen	Bartholomew
Lennox Castle	a splendid mansion	Groome
Lennox Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Lennoxtown	a town	Groome
Lillyburn	place	Bartholomew
Milton	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Milton or Milton of Campsie	a village	Groome
Rowantreefauld	school	Bartholomew
Torrance	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Torrance	a village	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 Campsie 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	Touring central 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
Craigend	0	2
Lennoxtown	0	2
Kelvin	0	4
Strathblane	0	2
Milton	0	3
Baldernock	0	2
Torrance	0	2
Blanefield	0	2
Mugdock	0	2
Birdston	0	2
Inchbelly	0	2
Fintry	0	2
Kirkintilloch	0	2
Gonachan	0	2
Cadder	2	3
Milngavie	0	2
Auchendavy	0	2
Lenzie	0	2
Bishopbriggs	0	2
New Kilpatrick	0	2