Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Peebles	a royal and police burgh, the county town of Peeblesshire	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Gatehope	affluent	Bartholomew
Glensax	a burn	Groome
Haystoun	a farmhouse	Groome
Kerfield	an estate, with a modern two-story mansion	Groome
Kingsmeadows	the seat	Groome
Neidpath Castle	an old baronial fortalice	Groome
Rosetta	a mansion	Groome
Swinton Bank	a mansion	Groome
Venlaw	a mansion	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 Peebles 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
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	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
Kailzie	0	2
Manor	0	2
Lyne	0	3
Eddleston	0	3
Stobo	0	2
Innerleithen	0	2
Traquair	2	2
Newlands	0	2
Walkerburn	0	2
Romanno Bridge	0	2
Dewar	0	2
Kirkurd	0	2
Drumelzier	1	2
Broomlee	0	2
Broughton	0	3
Leadburn	0	2
West Linton	0	3
Dolphinton	0	2
Yarrow	0	2
Kilbucho	0	1