Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Morton	a parish	Groome
Morton	ancient parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Carronbridge	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Carronbridge	a village	Groome
Dabton	seat	Bartholomew
Deer	place with ancient entrenchment	Bartholomew
Gateley Bridge	school	Bartholomew
Thornhill	village, with railway station	Bartholomew
Thornhill	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 Morton 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.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	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
Enoch	0	2
Thornhill	0	2
Durisdeer	3	3
Dalgarnock	0	2
Penpont	0	2
Keir	0	2
Closeburn	0	2
Barjarg	0	2
Tynron	0	2
Nithsdale	0	2
Eliock	0	1
Auldgirth	0	2
Wanlockhead	0	2
Moniaive	0	2
Dalswinton	0	2
Dunscore	0	2
Sanquhar	2	2
Glencairn	0	2
Kirkpatrick Juxta	0	2
Leadhills	0	2