Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bo'ness		Bartholomew
Borrowstounness or Bo'ness	a town and a parish	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 Boness 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 11: South-Eastern Scotland	2
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	1
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	1

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
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Bridgeness	0	2
Carriden	0	2
Kinneil	0	2
Linlithgow	13	3
Culross	4	2
Blairburn	0	2
Linlithgow Bridge	0	2
Valleyfield	0	2
Torryburn	0	2
Blackness	0	2
Polmont	0	2
Grangemouth	0	2
Cairneyhill	0	2
Charlestown	0	2
Philipstoun	0	1
Brightons	0	2
Limekilns	0	2
Oakley	0	2
Redding	0	2