Carnock, Fife : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Carnock parish Bartholomew
Carnock a village and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Blair an estate, with a mansion Groome
Cairneyhill village Bartholomew
Campsbank an eminence Groome
Carneil an eminence Groome
Carneil eminence Bartholomew
Clune estate Bartholomew
Clune an estate Groome
Forth (or Oakley) an ironworks Bartholomew
Gowkhall village Bartholomew
Gowkhall a village Groome
Luscar House a handsome Tudor mansion Groome
Luscar House 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
Blair 1 1
Oakley 0 2
Milesmark 0 2
Cairneyhill 0 2
Torryburn 0 2
Saline 0 1
Valleyfield 0 2
Dunfermline 18 2
Charlestown 0 2
Culross 4 2
Limekilns 0 2
Blairburn 0 2
Bridgeness 0 2
Carriden 0 2
Grangepans 0 2
Boness 4 3
Wester Aldie 0 2
Rosyth 2 2
Blackness 3 2
Beath 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CARNOCK 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.