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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dunbar. You may be able to find further references to Dunbar in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Dunbar | a town and a parish | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Dunbar.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Barns, East | village | Bartholomew |
Barns, East and West | two villages | Groome |
Barns. West | village | Bartholomew |
Beltonford | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Broxmouth | a seat | Groome |
Brunt | hill | Bartholomew |
Lochend House | seat | Bartholomew |
Lochend House | a seat | Groome |
West Barns | village | Bartholomew |
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 Dunbar 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. |
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Daniel Defoe | Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland | 8 |
William Camden | Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall | 2 |
Thomas Pennant | July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh | 2 |
Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 2 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 1 |
John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 1 |
John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 1 |
John Wesley | 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People | 1 |
Thomas Pennant | August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East | 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 |
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Broxmouth | 0 | 2 |
Spott | 0 | 2 |
Belton | 0 | 2 |
Innerwick | 0 | 2 |
Tyninghame | 0 | 2 |
Stenton | 0 | 2 |
Smeaton | 0 | 2 |
Whitekirk | 0 | 2 |
East Linton | 0 | 3 |
Whittinghame | 0 | 2 |
Auldhame | 0 | 1 |
Prestonkirk | 0 | 2 |
Tantallon | 0 | 2 |
Oldhamstocks | 0 | 2 |
Dunglass | 0 | 2 |
Bass Rock | 0 | 2 |
Garvald | 0 | 2 |
Cove | 0 | 2 |
Cockburnspath | 2 | 1 |
North Berwick | 4 | 2 |