Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Traquair	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cardrona	an estate, with a station and a mansion	Groome
Glen	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Glendean's Banks	chasm	Bartholomew
Glen, The	seat	Bartholomew
Kailzie	seat	Bartholomew
Quair Water		Bartholomew
Quair Water	a troutful stream	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 Traquair 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	2

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
Innerleithen	0	2
Walkerburn	0	2
Kailzie	0	2
Yarrow	0	2
Peebles	3	2
Manor	0	2
Caddonfoot	0	2
Clovenfords	0	2
Ettrick Forest	0	2
Fairnilee	0	3
Philiphaugh	0	2
Crosslee	0	2
Dewar	0	2
Kirkhope	0	2
Stobo	0	2
Selkirk	2	2
Lyne	0	3
Eddleston	0	3
Galashiels	1	2
Stow	0	2