Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kilpatrick, Old or West a village and a parish Groome
Old Kilpatrick Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchentorlie an estate, with a mansion Groome
Auchentoshan a mansion amid wooded grounds Groome
Auchentoshan seat Bartholomew
Bowling or Bowling Bay a locality Groome
Carleith a farm Groome
Chapelhill eminence Bartholomew
Chapelhill an eminence Groome
Cleddin a burn Groome
Cleddin rivulet Bartholomew
Clydebank village with railway station Bartholomew
Cochno hill Bartholomew
Cockno a hill Groome
Craigarestie a chief summit of the Kilpatrick Hills Groome
Craighirst one of the Kilpatrick Hills Groome
Dalmuir a burn and a village Groome
Dalnotter House Bartholomew
Dalnotter House a mansion Groome
Dumbuck village Bartholomew
Dumbuck a village and a mansion Groome
Dunglass a small rocky promontory Groome
Duntocher a small manufacturing town Groome
Duntocher small manufacturing town Bartholomew
Faifley village Bartholomew
Glenarbuck a ravine Groome
Humphrey, Loch Bartholomew
Kilbowie railway station Bartholomew
Littlemill a village Groome
Littlemill village Bartholomew
Milton village Bartholomew
Milton a village, with print-works Groome
Milton a village Groome
Milton village Bartholomew
Overtoun 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 Old Kilpatrick 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
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 Historical Gazetteer
Dalmuir 0 2
Bowling 0 2
Duntocher 0 2
Dunglass 1 2
Bishopton 0 2
Clydebank 0 2
Garscadden 0 2
Erskine 0 2
Inchinnan 0 2
Yoker 0 2
Dumbuck 0 1
Renfrew 1 3
Dumbarton 25 2
Bearsden 0 2
New Kilpatrick 0 2
Langbank 0 2
Houston 0 4
Jordanhill 0 2
Vale of Leven 6 2
Linwood 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
KILPATRICK OLD OR WEST F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
KIRK PATRICK William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
OLD <EM>KIRK PATRICK Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
OLD KILPATRICK John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.