Annan, Dumfries Shire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Annan river Bartholomew
Annan parish, parliamentary and royal burgh, seaport, and market town Bartholomew
Annan a river Groome
Annan a royal and parliamentary burgh Groome
Annandale division of Dumfries-shire Bartholomew
Annandale the middle one of the three divisions of Dumfriesshire Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Battle-Hill eminence Bartholomew
Battle-Hill an eminence Groome
Bonshaw Tower an old mansion Groome
Crea, or Creca village Bartholomew
Howgill village Bartholomew
Howgill a village Groome
Kenziels hamlet Bartholomew
Kenziels a hamlet Groome
Lochfield a hamlet Groome
Mount Annan seat Bartholomew
Mount-Annan a mansion, with beautiful grounds Groome
Northfield seat Bartholomew
Northfield an estate, with an elegant mansion Groome
Warmanbie 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 Annan 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 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland 3
George Head Carlisle and the Solway Firth 2
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 1
Robert Gammage To Scotland in 1843 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
Waterfoot 5 1
Dornock 0 2
Brydekirk 0 3
Cummertrees 0 2
Bowness 7 2
Port Carlisle 3 2
Hoddom 0 2
Kirtlebridge 0 2
Irving 0 2
Ecclefechan 0 2
Browhouses 0 2
Eaglesfield 0 2
Birrens 0 2
Kirkpatrick Fleming 0 1
Whitrigg 0 1
Ruthwell 1 2
Middlebie 0 2
Drumburgh 1 2
Kirkconnel 0 2
Dalton 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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