Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Lanark	a town and a parish	Groome
Lanark, New	a large manufacturing village	Groome
Lanark, New	village	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bonnington	an estate, with a mansion and a famous waterfall	Groome
Bridgend, Hyndford	a hamlet	Groome
Cartland	a village and a stupendous chasm	Groome
Cleghorn	a mansion, an estate, and a station	Groome
Craiglockhart	an ancient baronial fortalice	Groome
Hyndford	a hamlet and an estate	Groome
Jerviswood	an estate	Groome
Lee Castle	a mansion	Groome
Nemphlar	a village	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 Lanark 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	5
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
Kirkfieldbank	0	3
Nemphlar	0	2
Cleghorn	0	2
Cartland	0	2
Hyndford	0	2
Braidwood	0	2
Carstairs	0	2
Crossford	0	2
Carmichael	0	2
Pettinain	0	2
Auchenheath	0	2
Lesmahagow	0	4
Carluke	0	3
Blackwood	0	2
Clydesdale	0	1
Covington	0	2
Braehead	0	2
Carnwath	0	2
Libberton	0	2
Dalserf	0	2