Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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 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

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
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