Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Holyrood like this:

Holyrood, royal palace, and remains of abbey, in E. of Edinburgh. The abbey (1128), now represented chiefly by the nave of the church, contains the buryingvault of the Scottish kings. The palace was founded 1501, and enlarged 1528, but the present edifice is mainly of date 1671-1679; it contains Queen Mary's apartments, the Picture Gallery, and the Royal private apartments. Queen Mary's apartments are in the older portion of the building. In the Picture Gallery the Scottish peers elect their Parliamentary represen...

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tatives, and the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland holds his levees. Adjoining Holyrood is the Royal Park (King's or Queen's), first enclosed by James V.; it is practically a recreation-ground for the citizens of Edinburgh, has a carriage-drive round it, is nearly 5.miles in circuit, and includes Arthur's Seat and Salisbury-Crags.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Holyrood by doing a full-text search here.

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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 Holyrood 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.
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	2
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	1
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	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
Abbey	0	3
Canongate	0	2
Abbeyhill	0	2
Salisbury Crags	0	1
Calton Hill	0	1
Edinburgh	196	2
Broughton	0	1
Arthurs Seat	0	2
Jocks Lodge	0	2
Duddingston	0	3
Bonnington	0	2
Restalrig	0	2
Leith	0	2
Newhaven	0	2
Portobello	0	2
Craigmillar	0	2
Tynecastle	0	2
Granton	0	2
Liberton	0	2
Gorgie	0	2