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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 |
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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 |
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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 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 |
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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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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 |