Currie, Midlothian : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Currie parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
Currie a village and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Baberton an estate, with a mansion Groome
Baberton seat Bartholomew
Balerno a village Groome
Balerno village with railway station Bartholomew
Black Springs copious natural fountains Groome
Buteland an estate Bartholomew
Buteland an estate Groome
Curriehill an estate, with a mansion Groome
Enterkins-Yett Bartholomew
Enterkins-Yett a place Groome
Harelaw an upland farm Groome
Harelaw Reservoir Bartholomew
Hermiston village Bartholomew
Hermiston a village Groome
Kenleith a farm Groome
Kenleith farm Bartholomew
Lennox Castle a very strong ancient fortalice Groome
Lennox Castle, (or Lennox Tower) ruins of ancient fortalice Bartholomew
Malleny an estate, with a mansion Groome
Malleny old seat Bartholomew
Ravelrig seat Bartholomew
Ravelrig an estate, with a mansion Groome
Riccarton a mansion, with a fine park Groome
Riccarton 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
Riccarton 0 2
Juniper Green 0 2
Balerno 0 2
Colinton 0 2
Hailes 0 2
Gogar 0 2
Craiglockhart 0 2
Corstorphine 0 2
Ratho 0 2
Gorgie 0 2
Bonnington 0 2
Woodhouselee 0 2
Clermiston 0 2
Tynecastle 0 2
Rullion Green 0 2
Lennie 0 1
Morningside 0 1
Kirknewton 0 2
Glencorse 0 3
Cramond Bridge 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CURRIE 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:

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  • 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.