Earl Shilton, Leicestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Tranent police burgh Bartholomew
Tranent a town and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bankton a former mansion Groome
Birsley place with extensive colliery Bartholomew
Birsley a place Groome
Cockenzie a fishing village Groome
Cockenzie small seaport and fishing village Bartholomew
Elphinstone a collier village Groome
Elphinstone mining village Bartholomew
Falside Castle ruin Bartholomew
Falside Castle an ancient peel-tower Groome
Portseaton part of Bartholomew
St Germains a plain mansion Groome
St Germains seat 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
Prestonpans 8 4
Seton 4 2
Elphinstone 0 2
Cockenzie 2 2
Morrisons Haven 0 2
Ormiston 2 2
Penston 0 1
Pinkie 8 2
Longniddry 0 2
Cousland 0 2
Gladsmuir 0 2
Carberry 4 2
Inveresk 4 2
Pencaitland 0 2
Musselburgh 17 2
Smeaton 1 2
Fisherrow 2 1
Cranston 1 2
Preston 0 2
Esk 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
TRANENT 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.