Avondale, Lanarkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchengelloch an eminence in a secluded locality Bartholomew
Auchengelloch an eminence Groome
Chapel school Bartholomew
Crosshill school Bartholomew
Cullen Park a mansion Groome
Drumclog a wide boggy moorland tract Groome
Dungavel a hill Groome
Flemington a village Groome
Flemington village Bartholomew
Geil or Glengavel Water a rivulet Groome
Gilmourton village Bartholomew
Glengavel Water a stream Groome
Glengivel school Bartholomew
Kypes Rig hill-ridge Bartholomew
Kype Water a rivulet Groome
Lethame House a mansion Groome
Lethame House seat Bartholomew
Netherfield House seat Bartholomew
Overton an estate, with a mansion Groome
Strathaven a town Groome
Strathaven town 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
Strathaven 0 2
Chapelton 0 2
Glassford 0 6
Darvel 0 3
Loudoun 0 2
Stonehouse 0 2
Muirkirk 0 2
Glenbuck 0 2
Blackwood 0 2
Newmilns 1 2
Quarter 0 3
Torrance 0 2
Lesmahagow 1 4
Auchenheath 0 2
Cadzow 0 2
Larkhall 0 2
Airds Moss 0 2
East Kilbride 0 3
Eaglesham 0 2
Chatelherault 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
AVONDALE 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.