Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bathgate	a town and a parish	Groome
Bathgate and Edinburgh Railway	a railway	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Armadale	town	Bartholomew
Balbardie	an estate, with a mansion and fine park	Groome
Balbardie	mansion, park, and lake	Bartholomew
Barbauchlaw	coalfield	Bartholomew
Barbauchlaw	a coalfield	Groome
Bathville Row	a village	Groome
Bathville-Row	village	Bartholomew
Boghead	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Cappers	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cappers	a hamlet	Groome
Couston	ancient castle	Bartholomew
Durhamtown	a village	Groome
Durhamtown	village	Bartholomew
Starlaw	school	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 Bathgate 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.
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	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
Torphichen	0	2
Armadale	0	2
Blackburn	0	2
Bridgecastle	0	2
Whitburn	0	2
Addiewell	0	2
Livingston	0	2
Mossend	0	2
Bents	0	2
Longridge	0	2
West Calder	0	4
Muiravonside	0	2
Avonbridge	0	2
Linlithgow Bridge	0	2
Harthill	0	2
Blackridge	0	2
Breich	0	2
Linlithgow	13	3
East Benhar	0	3
Uphall	0	2