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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "ST SERFS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Alva	Clackmannanshire Stirlingshire	St Serf, and held by Cambuskenneth Abbey, stands on rising ground a little to the E, and, twice rebuilt (in 1632 and 1815), was enlarged	Groome
  Auchterderran	Fife	St Serf, and the hermit Culdees of Lochleven; the present building was erected at the hamlet in 1789, and its minister	Groome
  Burntisland	Fife	St Serf's Episcopal chapel. There are also a town-hall (1846), a fever hospital (1880), an institution for science	Groome
  Culross	Perthshire	St Mungo or Kentigern, who is commonly stated to have been educated by St Serf at the monastery of Culross	Groome
  Dundee	Angus	St Serf's Chapel, St Stephen's Chapel, St Fillan's Chapel, St James the Less's Chapel, St James	Groome
  Dunning	Perthshire	St Serf, built in the beginning of the 13th century. This, with its saddle-roof and SW stair-turret, is a very	Groome
  Dunning	Perthshire	Pitcairns), 1048; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; the tower of the parish church is that of the Norman church of St Serf (13th century).	Bartholomew
  Dysart	Fife	St Dennis' Chapel, and by some is held to have been the church of a priory of Black Friars, by others to have been served by a single priest. A little to the E of it stand the nave and saddle-roofed tower of the ruinous kirk of St Serf	Groome
  Fordoun	Kincardineshire	St Palladius, whose name is preserved in PaldyFair, and whose chapel, with a rude piscina, still stands in the parish churchyard. In 430, we are told, Pope Celestine sent him to Scotland (' in Seotiam' ) 'as the first bishop therein, with Serf	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	St Serf or Servanus, a disciple of St Palladius, who had here established a little monastery.* He received them into	Groome
  Leven, Loch	Kinross Shire	St Serf receives its name from the ruins of a priory, the church of which had been dedicated to St	Groome
  Linlithgowshire or West Lothian	West Lothian	St Serf stood and threw his staff across the Firth, in order to find out where he was to settle	Groome
  Monzievaird and Strowan	Perthshire	St Serf, and that of Strowan to St Ronan or Rowan, whence the name Strowan itself. Both were in use on alternate	Groome
  St Serf's Island	Kinross Shire	St Serf's Island , islet, in Loch Leven, Kinross-shire; has ruins of a priory.	Bartholomew
  Tibbermore	Perthshire	St Serf or Servanus, and situated on the N side of the Almond, within the present boundaries of Redgorton. At Tullilum	Groome
  Tillicoultry	Clackmannanshire	St Serf is said to have wrought many miracles, one of them, the raising of a woman's two sons	Groome

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