St Andrews, Fife : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
St Andrews parliamentary and royal burgh Bartholomew
St Andrews a parish containing a royal burgh Groome
St Andrews a royal burgh, market, and university town, and a seaport Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Balmungo an estate, with a mansion Groome
Balone a hamlet Groome
Balone hamlet Bartholomew
Boarhills village with railway station Bartholomew
Boarhills a village Groome
Brownhills hamlet Bartholomew
Brownhills a hamlet Groome
Buddo a remarkable rock Groome
Denbrae an estate, with a mansion Groome
Grange a hamlet Groome
Grange village Bartholomew
Kincaple village Bartholomew
Kincaple an estate, with a mansion and a village Groome
Kingask an estate, with a mansion Groome
Kingask seat Bartholomew
Kinkell seat Bartholomew
Kinkell an estate, with a mansion Groome
Magus Moor former moor, now reclaimed Bartholomew
Magus Muir a tract Groome

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 St Andrews 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.
James Boswell August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose 8
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth 5
Samuel Johnson Inch Keith and St. Andrews 4
William Camden Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall 2
Samuel Johnson Arbroath and Montrose 2
Samuel Johnson Aberdeen 2
James Boswell August 14th to 17th, 1773: In Edinburgh 1
James Boswell August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres 1
James Boswell September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye 1
William Camden Middlesex and London 1
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland 1
John Wesley 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix VI: The Life of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel 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
St Leonards 0 2
Cameron 0 2
Guard Bridge 0 2
Dunino 0 3
Leuchars 1 2
Blebo 0 2
Dairsie 0 2
Kemback 0 2
Kingsbarns 0 2
Pitscottie 0 2
Largo Ward 0 2
Carnbee 0 2
Logie 0 3
Ceres 0 2
Forgan 0 2
Kilmany 0 2
Ferry Port on Craig 0 3
Innergellie 0 2
Balcomie 0 2
Kilrenny 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
REGIMUND William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
SAINT ANDREWS William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Samuel Johnson A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland (London: W. Strahan and T.Cadell, 1775).
S. ANDREWES William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
ST ANDREWS 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).

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.