Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Stirling	a small parish, containing the royal burgh	Groome
Stirling	a market town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Craigforth	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Raploch	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 Stirling 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	24
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	11
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	6
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	6
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	2
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	1
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Raploch	0	1
Cambuskenneth	0	4
St Ninians	0	3
Cambusbarron	0	2
Causewayhead	0	2
Forth	0	2
Bannockburn	0	2
Bridge of Allan	0	5
Blairlogie	0	2
Fallin	0	1
Lecropt	0	2
Logie	0	1
Auchenbowie	0	2
Cambus	0	2
Menstrie	0	2
Tullibody	0	2
Dunblane	7	2
Plean	0	2
Kincardine	2	2
South Alloa	0	3