Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bothwell	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bellshill	a mining town	Groome
Bellshill	mining town with railway station	Bartholomew
Bothwell Park	village	Bartholomew
Cairnbroe, or Carnbroe	seat	Bartholomew
Calder	a seat of iron-works	Groome
Carfin	mining village	Bartholomew
Carfin	a collier village	Groome
Chapelhall	village	Bartholomew
Chapelhall	a large village	Groome
Clydesdale	village with ironworks	Bartholomew
Clydesdale Iron-works	a manufacturing village	Groome
Douglas Park	seat	Bartholomew
Douglas-Park	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Fallside	railway station	Bartholomew
Fallside	a station	Groome
Holytown	a town	Groome
Jerviston	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Jerviston House		Bartholomew
Langside	a village	Groome
Langside	village	Bartholomew
Lauchope House	old mansion	Bartholomew
Lauchope or Lachop House	an old mansion	Groome
Legbrannock	mining village	Bartholomew
Mossend	town with railway station	Bartholomew
Mossend	a town	Groome
Muirhead	a village	Groome
Nackerton	village	Bartholomew
Newarthill	mining village	Bartholomew
Newarthill	a mining village	Groome
Stevenston, New	part of town	Bartholomew
Tannochside	village	Bartholomew
Uddingston	a thriving town of recent growth	Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bothwell within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	1

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 Hist. Gazetteer
Stonefield	0	2
Burnbank	0	1
Uddingston	0	2
Bellshill	0	2
Blantyre	0	3
Hamilton	6	2
Mossend	0	2
Newton	0	2
Motherwell	0	2
Flemington	0	2
Broomhouse	0	2
Old Monkland	0	2
Cadzow	0	2
Chatelherault	0	2
Dikehead	0	2
Allanton	0	2
Baillieston	0	2
Bargeddie	0	2
Holytown	0	2
Carnbroe	0	2