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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "ARMADALE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Armadale	West Lothian	Armadale, a police burgh in Bathgate parish, W Linlithgowshire, 2½ miles W by S of Bathgate town, and 1 mile	Groome
  Armadale	Sutherland	Armadale, a fishing village, a bay, and a burn, in Farr parish, NE Sutherland. The village stands to the W of the bay, at 200 feet	Groome
  Armadale	Sutherland	Armadale , fishing vil., bay, and stream, NE. Sutherlandshire, 23 miles W. of Thurso; P.O. The stream flows 5 miles NE. to the head	Bartholomew
  Armadale	West Lothian	Armadale .-- town, in par. and 2½ miles W. by S. of Bathgate, mid. W. Linlithgowshire, pop. 2642; P.O., T.O.; has important	Bartholomew
  Armadale Castle	Inverness Shire	Armadale Castle , seat of Lord Macdonald, Sleat par., Skye, Inverness-shire.	Bartholomew
  Armadale Castle	Inverness Shire	Armadale Castle, the seat of Lord Macdonald, in Sleat parish, Isle of Skye, on the S coast, 7 miles E of Sleat	Groome
  Barbauchlaw	Lanarkshire West Lothian	Armadale. The rivulet has a north -easterly course; rises and runs 3 miles in Shotts parish; goes 2¼ miles	Groome
  Bathgate	West Lothian	Armadale, 2½ miles W by S. It is bounded, N by Torphichen and Linlithgow, NE by a detached portion	Groome
  Claistron	Orkney	Orphir parish, Orkney, on the coast, 15 miles WSW of Kirkwall. It was the residence of the late Lord Armadale.	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Armadale, Balerno, Borrowstounness, Broxburn, Dalkeith, Dalmahoy, Dunbar, Dunmore, Dunse, Falkirk, Haddington, Leith, Musselburgh, North Berwick, Penicuik, Portobello, Roslin, Stirling, Trinity	Groome
  Farr	Sutherland	Armadale Water, running 5 miles north-byeastward to Armadale Bay, whilst of lakes beyond number one other only needs notice	Groome
  Linlithgow	West Lothian	Armadale and Shielhill and Blackbraes. Pop. (1871) 79, 580, (1881) 90, 507, of whom 10, 709 were communicants of the Church	Groome
  Linlithgowshire (or West Lothian)	West Lothian	Falkirk Burghs) and Queensferry (Stirling Burghs), and the police burghs of Armadale, Bathgate, Borrowstounness, and Whitburn. It returns 1 member.	Bartholomew
  Linlithgowshire or West Lothian	West Lothian	Armadale and Torbanehill, and again at Fauldhonse, there are valuable mineral fields with seams of coal and ironstone. The strata	Groome
  Orphir	Orkney	Armadale (1756-1825), a lord of session. Other mansions are Smozrow and Swanbister; and 6 proprietors hold each an annual	Groome
  Sleat	Inverness Shire	Armadale Castle, whose owner, Lord Macdonald, is sole proprietor. Sleat is in the presbytery of Skye and the synod of Glenelg	Groome
  Sutherland	Sutherland	Armadale Bay, Strathy Bay, and Bay of Bighouse (½ x ½ mile) at the entrance to Strath Halladale. To the E of Balnakill	Groome
  Wick	Caithness	Armadale, Kirktomy, Farr, Torrisdale, Scullomy, Talmine, Eri boll, and Smoo. Half of the boats and men employed, and about two-thirds	Groome
  Woodend	West Lothian	Woodend , vil., Torphichen par., Linlithgowshire, 1 mile NW. of Armadale.	Bartholomew
  Woodend	West Lothian	Woodend, a village in Torphichen parish, Linlithgowshire, 1 1 / 8 mile WNW of Armadale.	Groome

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