Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Linlithgow	a parish containing the royal burgh	Groome
Linlithgow	a royal and parliamentary burgh and the county town of Linlithgowshire	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Avontoun	a mansion	Groome
Carrubber	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Kingscavil	a village, with a public school and a sandstone quarry	Groome
Ochiltree	hamlet	Bartholomew
Ochiltree	a hamlet	Groome
Preston House	a mansion	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 Linlithgow 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	9
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	2
William Camden	Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincoln	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	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
Linlithgow Bridge	0	2
Kinneil	0	2
Carriden	0	2
Boness	2	3
Grangepans	0	2
Bridgeness	0	2
Philipstoun	0	1
Blackness	0	2
Torphichen	0	2
Polmont	0	2
Ecclesmachan	0	2
Muiravonside	0	2
Brightons	0	2
Abercorn	2	2
Uphall	0	2
Redding	0	2
Grangemouth	0	2
Bridgecastle	0	2
Bathgate	1	3
Hopetoun	0	2