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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hamilton. You may be able to find further references to Hamilton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Hamilton | a royal, parliamentary, and police burgh, and a parish | Groome |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Hamilton.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Allanton | coal-mining village | Bartholomew | Allanton | a coal-mining village | Groome | Barncluith | a property | Groome | Chatelherault | a summer-house | Groome | Chatelherault | summer-house | Bartholomew | Darngaber | a village | Groome | Darngalter | village | Bartholomew | Earnock | an estate, with a mansion | Groome | Earnock, Meikle | a village | Groome | Earnock, Meikle | village with railway station | Bartholomew | Fairholm | an estate, with a mansion | Groome | Fairholm | seat | Bartholomew | Ferniegair | a village, with a station | Groome | Ferniegair | mining village with railway station | Bartholomew | Low Waters | a village | Groome | Low Waters | village | Bartholomew | Meikle Earnock | village with railway station | Bartholomew | Motherwell | a town | Groome | Neilsland House | a mansion | Groome | Plotcock | colliery village | Bartholomew | Plotcock | a collier village | Groome | Quarter Ironworks and Darngaber | village with railway station | Bartholomew | Quarter Ironworks and Darngaber | a conjoint village | Groome | Ross | an estate, with a mansion | Groome | Ross | seat | Bartholomew | Wellhall | seat | Bartholomew | Wellhall | a mansion | Groome |
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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 Hamilton 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 | 3 | William Camden | Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall | 2 | Thomas Pennant | September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh | 2 | James Boswell | November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 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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Chatelherault | 0 | 2 |
Cadzow | 0 | 2 |
Allanton | 0 | 2 |
Burnbank | 0 | 1 |
Motherwell | 0 | 2 |
Bothwell | 1 | 2 |
Stonefield | 0 | 2 |
Quarter | 0 | 3 |
Blantyre | 0 | 3 |
Bellshill | 0 | 2 |
Mossend | 0 | 2 |
Larkhall | 0 | 2 |
Carfin | 0 | 2 |
Uddingston | 0 | 2 |
Holytown | 0 | 2 |
Wishaw | 0 | 2 |
Dalziel | 0 | 2 |
Newarthill | 0 | 2 |
Newton | 0 | 2 |
Torrance | 0 | 2 |