Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Selkirk	a post and market town, a royal and parliamentary burgh, and the county town of Selkirkshire	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bowhill	a beautiful modern hunting seat	Groome
Broadmeadows	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Carterhaugh	a wooded peninsula	Groome
Ettrick-Bank	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Foulshiels	a place	Groome
Haining, The	a mansion	Groome
Oakwood Tower	a ruined baronial fortalice	Groome
Philiphaugh	a mansion	Groome
Sunderland Hall	a mansion	Groome
Yair	a mansion, with beautiful grounds	Groome
Yair House	seat	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 Selkirk 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.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	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
Philiphaugh	0	2
Fairnilee	0	3
Ashkirk	0	2
Caddonfoot	0	2
Lilliesleaf	0	2
Galashiels	1	2
Clovenfords	0	2
Bridgend	0	2
Darnick	0	2
Bowden	0	2
Melrose	3	3
Gattonside	0	2
Newstead	0	2
Ettrick Forest	0	2
Yarrow	0	2
Hassendean	0	2
Newtown	0	3
Longnewton	0	2
Crosslee	0	2
Minto	0	2