Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Linton	a village and a parish	Groome
West Linton		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blythe Bridge	village	Bartholomew
Coalyburn	hamlet	Bartholomew
Garvald House	seat	Bartholomew
Medwyn	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 West Linton 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.
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Broomlee	0	2
Romanno Bridge	0	2
Carlops	0	2
Newlands	0	2
Dolphinton	0	2
Dunsyre	0	2
Leadburn	0	2
Kirkurd	0	2
Eddleston	0	3
Walston	0	2
Howgate	0	2
Penicuik	0	3
Lyne	0	3
Elsrickle	0	2
Kirkhill	0	2
Rullion Green	0	2
Stobo	0	2
Balerno	0	2
Skirling	0	2
Auchendinny	0	2