Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Roxburgh	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Doune or Down Law	a hill	Groome
Down Law	hill	Bartholomew
Heiton	village	Bartholomew
Heiton	a village	Groome
Sunlaws	an estate	Groome
Sunlaws	seat	Bartholomew

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 Roxburgh 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	4
William Camden	Northumberland	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
Makerstoun	0	2
Grahamslaw	0	2
Kelso	17	2
Eckford	0	2
Rutherford	0	2
Crailing	0	2
Nenthorn	0	2
Sprouston	0	2
Ednam	0	2
Smailholm	0	2
Stichill	0	2
Cessford	0	2
Bonjedward	0	2
Linton	0	2
Maxton	0	2
Mertoun	0	2
Morebattle	0	2
Ancrum	0	2
Bongate	0	2
Hadden	0	2