Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Salsburgh or Salysburgh

Salsburgh or Salysburgh, a village, with a post office, in Shotts parish, Lanarkshire, 3¼ miles NW of Shotts station, and 4½ ENE of Holytown. Pop. (1861) 325, (1871) 553, (1881) 576.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, with a post office"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shotts ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty
Place names: SALSBURGH     |     SALSBURGH OR SALYSBURGH     |     SALYSBURGH
Place: Salsburgh

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