Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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 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

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
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