Canonbie, Dumfries Shire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Archerbreck a burn and a coalfield Groome
Archerbreck stream and coalfield Bartholomew
Bowholm village Bartholomew
Brick-Kiln hamlet Bartholomew
Coldside hamlet Bartholomew
Gilnockie railway station Bartholomew
Gilnockie a station Groome
Glenzier school Bartholomew
Hallgreen place with vestiges of priory (12th century) Bartholomew
Harelaw a quondam peel tower Groome
Harelaw school Bartholomew
Hollows a ruined Border tower Groome
Hollows village Bartholomew
Priorhill village Bartholomew
Priorhill a village Groome
Rowanburn a village Groome
Rowanburn village 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
Riddings 0 2
Gilnockie 0 2
Kirkandrews Moat 0 3
Penton 0 2
Kirkandrews upon Esk 0 2
Netherby 3 2
Beck 0 2
Kirkandrews Middle 0 1
Nichol Forest 0 2
Arthuret 0 1
Longtown 3 2
Solport 0 2
Half Morton 0 2
Solway Moss 0 1
Langholm 1 2
Trough 0 2
Kirkandrews Nether 0 1
Kirklinton 0 4
Kershope Foot 0 2
Hethersgill 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CANONBIE 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.