Markinch, Fife : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Markinch small town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
Markinch a small town and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchmuty a village Groome
Auchmuty and Balbirnie Mills a united village Bartholomew
Balbirnie an estate, with a mansion Groome
Balcurvie village Bartholomew
Balcurvie a village Groome
Balfour an estate, with a mansion Groome
Balgonie two villages and an estate Groome
Barnslee an estate, with a mansion Groome
Barnslee seat Bartholomew
Burns a hamlet Groome
Burns hamlet Bartholomew
Cameron Bridge village with railway station and distillery Bartholomew
Cameron Bridge a hamlet Groome
Coalton village Bartholomew
Coaltown a village, with a public school Groome
Coull mining hamlet Bartholomew
Coull a collier hamlet Groome
Gateside a hamlet Groome
Haugh place Bartholomew
Kirkforthar Feus village Bartholomew
Kirkforthar House an old mansion Groome
Maw a hamlet Groome
Thornton a village Groome
Thornton village with railway station Bartholomew
Windygates a village Groome
Windygates (and Cameron Bridge) village with railway station Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Glenrothes 4 1
Balgonie 3 2
Thornton 0 2
Leslie 9 2
Cameron Bridge 0 2
Kennoway 0 2
Wemyss 6 2
East Wemyss 0 2
Kettle 0 2
Buckhaven 1 2
Kinglassie 0 2
Gallatown 0 2
Falkland 5 2
West Wemyss 0 2
Methil 2 2
Dysart 3 2
Leven 0 4
Ladybank 0 2
Scoonie 0 2
Pathhead 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
MARKINCH 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.