Eastwood, Renfrewshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Eastwood parish Bartholomew
Eastwood or Pollok a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Arden a series of tracts of limestone Groome
Auldfield portion of Pollokshaws town Bartholomew
Cowglen seat and hamlet Bartholomew
Cowglen a hamlet and a mansion Groome
Darnley an ancient barony Groome
Giffnock hamlet with railway station Bartholomew
Giffnock a hamlet Groome
Kennishead a place, with a station Groome
Kennishead railway station Bartholomew
Levern quoad sacra par. Bartholomew
Pollok House seat Bartholomew
Pollok House a mansion Groome
Pollokshaws police burgh Bartholomew
Shawlands suburb Bartholomew
Thornliebank town with railway station Bartholomew
Thornliebank a manufacturing village Groome

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
Thornliebank 0 2
Giffnock 0 2
Pollokshaws 0 2
Darnley 0 2
Nitshill 0 2
Househillmuir 0 2
Hurlet 0 2
Langside 1 1
Crossmyloof 0 2
Newton Mearns 0 1
Pollokshields 0 1
Bellahouston 0 2
Barrhead 0 2
Cathcart 0 2
Crosshill 0 1
Pollokshields East 0 1
Mearns 0 2
Busby 0 2
Govanhill 0 1
Kinning Park 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
EASTWOOD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
EASTWOOD OR POLLOK F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
POLLOK F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

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