Kettle, Fife : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Balmalcolm a village Groome
Balmalcolm village Bartholomew
Bankton Park hamlet Bartholomew
Bauden a hill Groome
Bauden a hill Bartholomew
Boghall a hamlet Groome
Boghall hamlet Bartholomew
Burnturk a village Groome
Burnturk village Bartholomew
Chapel seat Bartholomew
Coalton a village Groome
Coalton village Bartholomew
Crosshouses a hamlet Groome
Crosshouses hamlet Bartholomew
Dams a village Groome
Dams hamlet Bartholomew
Forthar a place with extensive lime-works Groome
Holekettle or Kettle Bridge a village Groome
Lackerstone barrow Bartholomew
Lathrisk House a good mansion Groome
Lathrisk House seat Bartholomew
Muirhead village Bartholomew
Ramornie a mansion Groome
Ramornie 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
Ladybank 0 2
Pitlessie 0 1
Cults 0 2
Springfield 0 2
Collessie 0 2
Melville 4 2
Falkland 5 2
Monimail 0 2
Dunshelt 0 3
Scotstarvit 0 2
Markinch 0 2
Kennoway 0 2
Balgonie 3 2
Auchtermuchty 1 2
Glenrothes 4 1
Balgarvie 0 2
Cupar 9 3
Leslie 9 2
Cameron Bridge 0 2
Lindores 2 2

Names from historical writing

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

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