Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lasswade	a small town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Auchindinny	village and railway station	Bartholomew
Broomieknowe	a railway station	Groome
Hawthornden	the romantic home of the poet Drummond	Groome
Kirkhill	a village	Groome
Loanhead	town with railway station	Bartholomew
Loanhead	a small town	Groome
Melville Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Melville Castle	the seat	Groome
Midfield House	seat	Bartholomew
Pentland, New	village	Bartholomew
Pittendriech	seat	Bartholomew
Polton	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Polton	a group of places	Groome
Pomathorn	a station	Groome
Pomathorn	station	Bartholomew
Rosewell	a village	Groome
Rosslyn Castle	railway station	Bartholomew
Rosslynlee	railway station	Bartholomew
Springfield	a seat	Groome
Springfield	village	Bartholomew

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 Lasswade 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	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
Bonnyrigg	0	2
Polton	0	2
Loanhead	0	2
Newbattle	5	2
Cockpen	0	2
Lugton	0	2
Dalkeith	8	2
Gilmerton	0	2
Newton Grange	0	2
Burdiehouse	0	2
Rosewell	0	2
Newton	0	2
Pentland	0	2
Roslin	0	2
Millerhill	0	1
Liberton	0	2
Esk	0	2
Carrington	0	2
Smeaton	0	2
Craigmillar	0	2