Cathcart, Renfrewshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cathcart parish Bartholomew
Cathcart two villages Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aikenhead the seat Groome
Busby a manufacturing town Groome
Camphill seat, and hill with vestiges of ancient camp Bartholomew
Camphill an estate, with a mansion Groome
Clarkston a village Groome
Crossmyloof village Bartholomew
Crossmyloof a village Groome
Kilmailing part of Bartholomew
Langside S. suburb Bartholomew
Linn an estate, with a mansion Groome
Linn House seat Bartholomew
Netherlee village Bartholomew
New Cathcart village Bartholomew
Sheddens village Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Langside 1 1
Crosshill 0 1
Rutherglen 0 3
Govanhill 0 1
Crossmyloof 0 2
Pollokshields East 0 1
Carmunnock 0 2
Pollokshaws 0 2
Giffnock 0 2
Bridgeton 0 2
Dalmarnock 0 1
Gorbals 0 1
Pollokshields 0 1
Busby 0 2
Calton 0 1
Barrowfield 0 2
Kinning Park 0 1
Eastwood 0 2
Glasgow 110 3
Thornliebank 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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