Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Partick like this:

Partick, town with ry. sta., Govan par., NW. Lanarkshire, on the N. bank of river Clyde and W. bank of river Kelvin, in W. suburbs of Glasgow - town, pop. 27,410; police burgh, pop. 27,394; 3 Banks; has extensive shipbuilding yards. Partick was made a police burgh in 1852.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Partick by doing a full-text search here.

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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 Partick 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.
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
Hillhead	0	1
Govan	0	2
Balgray	0	1
Kinning Park	0	1
Anderston	0	2
Bellahouston	0	2
Maryhill	0	2
Jordanhill	0	2
Dawsholm	0	3
Pollokshields	0	1
Pollokshields East	0	1
Glasgow	96	3
Gorbals	0	1
Barony	0	1
Govanhill	0	1
Crossmyloof	0	2
Calton	0	1
Crosshill	0	1
Dennistoun	0	1