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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Melrose. You may be able to find further references to Melrose in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Melrose | a parish | Groome | Melrose | a post town and burgh of barony | Groome |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Melrose.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Allan, or Alwyn | affluent | Bartholomew | Allen | a rivulet | Groome | Blainslee | a village | Groome | Blainslee | village | Bartholomew | Bourjo | an extensive tumulus | Groome | Bridgend | hamlet | Bartholomew | Bridgend | a hamlet | Groome | Buckholmside | a part of Galashiels town | Groome | Buckholmside | village | Bartholomew | Colmslie | ruined tower | Bartholomew | Darlingshaugh | Bartholomew | Darnick | a village | Groome | Darnick | village | Bartholomew | Drygrange | seat | Bartholomew | Drygrange | an estate, with a mansion | Groome | Fairy Dean | narrow glen | Bartholomew | Gattonside | a village | Groome | Gattonside | village | Bartholomew | Hillslap | ruined tower | Bartholomew | Huntly | a burn | Groome | Huntly Burn | stream | Bartholomew | Langlee House | seat | Bartholomew | Langshaw | place with school | Bartholomew | Melrose, Old | seat | Bartholomew | Newstead | village | Bartholomew | Newstead | a village | Groome | Newtown St Boswells | village with railway station | Bartholomew | Pavilion | a mansion | Groome | Pavilion | seat | Bartholomew | Prior Bank | seat | Bartholomew | Prior Bank | a seat | Groome | Ravenswood | a mansion | Groome | Ravenswood | seat | Bartholomew | Rhymer's Glen | Bartholomew | Wooplaw | seat | Bartholomew | Wooplaw | an estate, with a modern mansion and fine plantations | Groome |
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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 Melrose 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 | 2 | William Camden | Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray | 1 |
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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 |
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Gattonside | 0 | 2 |
Darnick | 0 | 2 |
Newstead | 0 | 2 |
Bridgend | 0 | 2 |
Bowden | 0 | 2 |
Newtown | 0 | 3 |
Dryburgh | 0 | 2 |
Bemersyde | 0 | 2 |
Earlston | 0 | 2 |
St Boswells | 0 | 3 |
Galashiels | 1 | 2 |
Mertoun | 0 | 2 |
Longnewton | 0 | 2 |
Maxton | 0 | 2 |
Lilliesleaf | 0 | 2 |
Fairnilee | 0 | 3 |
Selkirk | 2 | 2 |
Caddonfoot | 0 | 2 |
Clovenfords | 0 | 2 |
Legerwood | 0 | 2 |