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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Portpatrick. You may be able to find further references to Portpatrick in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Portpatrick | a Wigtownshire village and parish | Groome |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Portpatrick.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Cairnpat or Cairnpiat | a hill | Groome | Castle | a small bay | Groome | Colfin | a station | Groome | Colfin | glen and station | Bartholomew | Craigoch | a burn | Groome | Dunskey | an old castle | Groome | Enoch | a hamlet | Groome | Enoch | hamlet | Bartholomew | Enock | school | Bartholomew |
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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 Portpatrick 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 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland | 2 |
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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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Rhinns | 0 | 3 |
Stranraer | 1 | 2 |
Stoneykirk | 0 | 2 |
Leswalt | 0 | 2 |
Soulseat | 0 | 3 |
Castle Kennedy | 0 | 2 |
Inch | 0 | 2 |
Innermessan | 0 | 2 |
Loch Ryan | 0 | 3 |
Kirkcolm | 0 | 3 |
Cairnryan | 0 | 2 |
Dunragit | 0 | 2 |
Corsewall | 0 | 2 |
Old Luce | 0 | 4 |
New Luce | 0 | 4 |
Stairhaven | 0 | 1 |
Kirkmaiden | 0 | 4 |
Glenapp | 0 | 3 |
Drummore | 0 | 3 |
Ballantrae | 0 | 2 |