Stewarton, Ayrshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchenharvie a ruined castle Groome
Corsehill an estate Groome
Corsehill seat and ruined castle Bartholomew
Glazert a troutful burn Groome
Kennox an estate, with a mansion Groome
Kennox House seat Bartholomew
Kingsford hamlet Bartholomew
Lainshaw seat Bartholomew
Lainshaw an estate, with a modern mansion Groome
Lochridge seat Bartholomew
Lochridge an estate, with a mansion Groome
Robertland seat Bartholomew
Robertland an estate, with a mansion and the site of an old castle Groome

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
Dunlop 0 2
Cunninghame 0 2
Kilmaurs 1 2
Fenwick 0 2
Kilmarnock 5 4
Crosshouse 0 2
Perceton 0 2
Crookedholm 0 2
Hurlford 0 2
Riccarton 0 2
Dreghorn 0 2
Auchenbathie 0 2
Beith 1 2
Blair 0 2
Glengarnock 0 2
Kilwinning 0 2
Irvine 10 4
Galston 0 2
Fullarton 0 2
Dundonald 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
STEWARTON 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:

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  • 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.