Holme Abbey, Cumberland : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Orwell parish Bartholomew
Orwell a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Arlary an estate, with a mansion Groome
Arlary seat Bartholomew
Burleigh an old baronial castle Groome
Burleigh Castle ruined ancient baronial edifice Bartholomew
Cairnavain ancient stone tumulus Bartholomew
Hattonburn an estate, with a mansion Groome
Hattonburn House seat Bartholomew
Middleton a small village Groome
Middleton hamlet Bartholomew
Milnathort a little market town Groome
Shanwell House a mansion Groome
Shanwell House 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
Milnathort 0 2
Kinross 18 2
Arngask 0 2
Loch Leven 3 3
Fossoway 0 1
Cleish 0 2
Crook of Devon 0 2
Kinnesswood 0 2
St Serfs 1 1
Gateside 0 3
Portmoak 1 2
Scotlandwell 0 1
Dron 0 2
Glendevon 1 3
Wester Aldie 0 2
Rumblingbridge 0 2
Dunning 0 2
Pitkeathly 0 3
Muckhart 1 3
Blairadam 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
ORWELL 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.