Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Borthwick	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bellsmains	hamlet	Bartholomew
Catcune	ruined castle	Bartholomew
Clayhouses	a village	Groome
Clayhouses	village	Bartholomew
Currie	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Currie	seat	Bartholomew
Dewarton	a village	Groome
Fushiebridge	a village	Groome
Gore Water	a rivulet	Groome
Harvieston	an estate, with an old, thick-walled mansion, greatly enlarged	Groome
Harvieston	seat	Bartholomew
Middleton House	a mansion	Groome
Middleton House	seat	Bartholomew
Newlandrigg	place with school	Bartholomew
Tyne	river	Bartholomew
Vogrie	seat	Bartholomew
Vogrie	a plain mansion of recent erection	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 Borthwick 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	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
Gorebridge	0	2
Crichton	0	2
Carrington	0	2
Temple	0	4
Pathhead	0	2
Ford	0	2
Newton Grange	0	2
Cockpen	0	2
Rosebery	0	2
Preston	0	2
Cranston	1	2
Fala	0	2
Newbattle	5	2
Heriot	0	2
Bonnyrigg	0	2
Rosewell	0	2
Dalkeith	8	2
Soutra	0	2
Lasswade	1	2
Cousland	0	2