Neilston, Renfrewshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Neilston town and parish Bartholomew
Neilston a town and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Arthurlee part of Bartholomew
Barrhead a large but straggling manufacturing village Groome
Boon-The-Brae a place with the site of an ancient chapel Groome
Broadley a seat of manufacture Groome
Brownside Bartholomew
Brownside a place Groome
Caldwell railway station Bartholomew
Cawpla, or Caplaw hill Bartholomew
Chapel or Chappell a village Groome
Commore Dam a reservoir or artificial lake Groome
Commore Dam reservoir Bartholomew
Croft head village Bartholomew
Gateside a village Groome
Gateside village, with printworks Bartholomew
Glanderston an estate, with a mansion of 1697, a farmhouse now Groome
Glenkillock a wooded ravine Groome
Harelaw Dam reservoir Bartholomew
Kirkton Burn a rivulet Groome
Kirkton Burn stream Bartholomew
Levernbank village Bartholomew
Libo, Loch small loch Bartholomew
Ouplaymoor village Bartholomew
Uplawmoor (or Ouplaymoor) village Bartholomew
Uplawmoor or Ouplaymoor a village Groome

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
Gateside 0 2
Barrhead 0 2
Abbey 0 2
Darnley 0 2
Nitshill 0 2
Househillmuir 0 2
Hurlet 0 2
Newton Mearns 0 1
Mearns 0 2
Elderslie 1 2
Paisley 17 2
Thornliebank 0 2
Eastwood 0 2
Johnstone 0 2
Linwood 0 2
Auchenbathie 0 2
Giffnock 0 2
Howwood 0 2
Pollokshaws 0 2
Kilbarchan 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NEILSTON 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.