Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
St Ninians or St Ringans	a large parish containing a post-town	Groome
St Ringans		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Auchenbowie	village	Bartholomew
Auchenbowie	a hamlet, an estate, and a burn	Groome
Bannock Burn	a rivulet	Groome
Bellfield	suburban village	Bartholomew
Bloody fold	a place	Groome
Bruce's Castle	ancient baronial round tower	Bartholomew
Bruce's Castle	an ancient baronial round tower	Groome
Buckieburn	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cambusbarron	a village	Groome
Camp	a hamlet	Groome
Camp	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cauldhane	a hamlet	Groome
Coulter	a loch	Groome
Craigengelt	an estate	Groome
Craigford	village	Bartholomew
Craigford	a village	Groome
Earls Burn	stream	Bartholomew
East Plean	village	Bartholomew
Fallin	school	Bartholomew
Gilmour's Linn	a beautiful cascade	Groome
Gilmour's Linn	waterfall	Bartholomew
Milton, Whins of	village	Bartholomew
Milton, Whins of	a village	Groome
Muirland	school	Bartholomew
Muir, Muiralehouse, or Muirton	a village	Groome
Muir (or Muiralehouse)	part of	Bartholomew
M urrayshall	seat	Bartholomew
Murrayshall	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Newlands	a village	Groome
Polmaise Castle	a mansion	Groome
Polmaise Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Sauchie	an estate, with a mansion and a ruined fortalice	Groome
Sauchie	seat	Bartholomew
Touch House	a mansion	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 St Ninians 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	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	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
Bannockburn	0	2
Stirling	47	3
Cambusbarron	0	2
Raploch	0	1
Cambuskenneth	0	4
Forth	0	2
Auchenbowie	0	2
Causewayhead	0	2
Fallin	0	1
Bridge of Allan	0	5
Cambus	0	2
Blairlogie	0	2
Plean	0	2
Lecropt	0	2
Logie	0	1
Tullibody	0	2
Torwood	0	2
Menstrie	0	2
Dunipace	0	2
South Alloa	0	3