Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Douglas	a town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Auchensaugh	hill	Bartholomew
Auchensaugh or Auchenshauch	a broad-based hill	Groome
Carmacoup	seat	Bartholomew
Douglas Castle	an ancient ruin and a modern seat	Groome
Douglas Water	a stream	Groome
Glentaggart	a small glen	Groome
Glentaggart Burn	affluent	Bartholomew
Glespin	a burn	Groome
Glespin Burn	right affluent	Bartholomew
Inches Station	railway station	Bartholomew
Rigside	village	Bartholomew
Stableston	school	Bartholomew
Uddington	village	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 Douglas 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
Crawfordjohn	0	2
Clydesdale	0	1
Glenbuck	0	2
Lesmahagow	0	4
Roberton	0	2
Abington	0	2
Wiston	0	3
Carmichael	0	2
Hyndford	0	2
Auchenheath	0	2
Kirkfieldbank	0	3
Lanark	6	4
Blackwood	0	2
Nemphlar	0	2
Lamington	0	3
Muirkirk	0	2
Cartland	0	2
Crawford	2	2
Crossford	0	2
Cleghorn	0	2