Beith, Renfrewshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Beith parish and market town Bartholomew
Beith a market town Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Barrmill village with railway station Bartholomew
Boghall a property, with the bed of a drained lake Groome
Burnhouse village Bartholomew
Caldwell seat Bartholomew
Gateside a village Groome
Gateside village Bartholomew
Giffen Castle old ruined seat Bartholomew
Hessilhead Castle old ruin Bartholomew
Morishill an estate, with a mansion Groome
Morrishill seat Bartholomew
Woodside 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 Beith 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 Ayrshire and Renfrewshire 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
Glengarnock 0 2
Kilbirnie 0 2
Lochwinnoch 0 2
Auchenbathie 0 2
Dunlop 0 2
Dalry 0 2
Blair 0 2
Howwood 0 2
Cunninghame 0 2
Kilbarchan 1 2
Stewarton 0 2
Kilwinning 0 2
Johnstone 0 2
Bridge of Weir 0 3
Crosslee 0 2
Neilston 0 2
Elderslie 1 2
Perceton 0 2
Linwood 0 2
Fairlie 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BEITH 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.