Coldingham, Berwickshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Coldingham coastal parish and village Bartholomew
Coldingham a village and a coast parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Abb's Head, St a bold rocky promontory Groome
Ale a rivulet Groome
Ale Water affluent Bartholomew
Auchincraw a village Groome
Auchincraw village Bartholomew
Coldinghamshore fishing village Bartholomew
Coldingham Shore a fishing village Groome
Ernsheugh eminence with Caledonian camp Bartholomew
Fairlaw seat Bartholomew
Fairlaw an estate, with a mansion Groome
Fast Castle a ruinous sea-fortress Groome
Grantshouse hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
Grant's House a hamlet Groome
Renton school Bartholomew
Renton House a mansion Groome
Reston village with railway station Bartholomew
Reston a village Groome
St Abb's Head bold rocky promontory 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 Coldingham 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland 5
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 3
Thomas Pennant July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh 2
Thomas Pennant July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed 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
Reston 0 2
Eyemouth 2 2
Ayton 1 2
Houndwood 0 2
Auchencrow 0 2
Burnmouth 0 2
Grantshouse 0 2
Chirnside 0 2
Foulden 0 2
Mordington 2 2
Lamberton 0 2
Old Cambus 2 2
Bunkle 0 2
Merse 0 2
Allanton 0 2
Hutton 0 2
Edrom 0 2
Halidon Hill 1 2
Cockburnspath 2 1
Cove 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
COLDANA William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
COLDINGHAM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
COLUDUM William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
COUDINGHAM Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).

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.