Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alva	a town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Devon	a river	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 Alva 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.
Robert Gammage	To Scotland in 1843	2
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	2

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
Sauchie	0	3
Tullibody	0	2
Tillicoultry	1	2
Menstrie	0	2
Cambus	0	2
Alloa	17	2
Blairlogie	0	2
South Alloa	0	3
Craigrie	0	2
Clackmannan	0	2
Westfield	0	2
Linn Mill	0	2
Logie	0	1
Forth	0	2
Fallin	0	1
Kennet	0	2
Dunmore	0	2
Causewayhead	0	2
Dollar	2	2
Cambuskenneth	0	4