Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Crawford	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Biddes or Bidhouse Burn	a rivulet	Groome
Brow	one of the lead mines at Leadhills	Groome
Camps	a rivulet	Groome
Daer and Powtrail	school	Bartholomew
Dalveen	a wild pass	Groome
Elvanfoot	an inn and a station	Groome
Elvanfoot	railway station and inn	Bartholomew
Elvan Water	a rivulet	Groome
Elvan Water	rivulet	Bartholomew
Evan Water	a stream	Groome
Evan Water		Bartholomew
Glengonner Water	a stream	Groome
Glengonner Water	left affluent	Bartholomew
Leadhills	village	Bartholomew
Leadhills	a mining village	Groome
Lindsay Tower, or Crawford Castle	ruined old stronghold	Bartholomew
Lowther, Green	a mountain	Groome
Midlock Water	a burn	Groome
Newton House	seat	Bartholomew
Newton House	a mansion	Groome
Potrail Water		Bartholomew
Powtrail Water	a head-stream of the river Clyde	Groome
Summit	school	Bartholomew
Tower Lindsay	ruined castle	Bartholomew

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 Crawford 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	2

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
Abington	0	2
Roberton	0	2
Crawfordjohn	0	2
Leadhills	0	2
Lamington	0	3
Wiston	0	3
Wanlockhead	0	2
Clydesdale	0	1
Symington	0	2
Culter	0	2
Tweedsmuir	0	2
Douglas	1	2
Crook	0	2
Durisdeer	3	3
Carmichael	0	2
Covington	0	2
Biggar	0	3
Moffat	0	2
Kilbucho	0	1
Sanquhar	2	2