Strathmiglo, Fife : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Strathmiglo parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
Strathmiglo a village and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bellfield hamlet Bartholomew
Bellfield a hamlet Groome
Cash-Fens a southern suburb of Strathmiglo town Groome
Cowiefauld hamlet Bartholomew
Cowiefauld a hamlet Groome
Edenshead, Edentown, or Gateside village with railway station Bartholomew
Edenshead, Edentown, or Gateside a village Groome
Gateside a village Groome
Gateside village with railway station Bartholomew
Letham House seat Bartholomew
Letham House a mansion Groome
Miglo affluent Bartholomew
Pitlour House a mansion Groome
Pitlour House seat Bartholomew
Wellfield a mansion Groome
Wellfield seat 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 Strathmiglo 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.
Robert Gammage Touring central Scotland 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 Historical Gazetteer
Auchtermuchty 1 2
Gateside 0 3
Dunshelt 0 3
Falkland 5 2
Abernethy 1 2
Arngask 0 2
Abdie 0 2
Collessie 0 2
Kinnesswood 0 2
Newburgh 0 2
Lindores 2 2
Portmoak 1 2
Ladybank 0 2
Melville 4 2
Scotlandwell 0 1
Leslie 9 2
Dron 0 2
Monimail 0 2
Kettle 0 2
St Madoes 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Strathmiglo. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
STRATHMIGLO John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.