Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alloa	a river-port, a seat of manufacture, and the chief town of Clackmannanshire	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alloa Inch	island	Bartholomew
Cambus	village	Bartholomew
Cambus	a village	Groome
Coalyland, or Collyland	mining village	Bartholomew
Holton (and Holton Square)	mining village	Bartholomew
Sauchie	part of	Bartholomew
Schaw Park	a seat	Groome
Schaw Park	seat	Bartholomew
Tullibody	village	Bartholomew
Tullibody	a village	Groome

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 Alloa 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	7
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	6
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	1
Robert Gammage	To Scotland in 1843	1
Thomas Pennant	Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches	1
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	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
South Alloa	0	3
Westfield	0	2
Craigrie	0	2
Clackmannan	0	2
Sauchie	0	3
Cambus	0	2
Dunmore	0	2
Tullibody	0	2
Linn Mill	0	2
Elphinstone	0	2
Alva	4	2
Kennet	0	2
Fallin	0	1
Kennetpans	0	2
Kilbagie	0	2
Tillicoultry	1	2
Airth	0	2
Menstrie	0	2
Forth	0	2
Blairlogie	0	2