Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Edinburgh	the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian	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 Edinburgh 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 11: South-Eastern Scotland	21
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	17
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	13
James Boswell	November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh	11
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	11
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	11
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	11
James Boswell	August 14th to 17th, 1773: In Edinburgh	10
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	7
Feargus O'Connor	O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839	7
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	6
James Boswell	September 8th to 12th, 1773: Raasay; meeting with Flora McDonald	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	5
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	5
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	5
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	4
James Boswell	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	4
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	4
James Boswell	Introduction	3
James Boswell	Sept. 1st to 7th, 1773: Glen Moriston to Skye	3
James Boswell	September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye	3
James Boswell	October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray	3
William Camden	Coins of Britain; The Celts, Picts and Scots	3
Samuel Johnson	Arbroath and Montrose	3
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	3
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	3
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	2
James Boswell	September 25th to October 2nd, 1773: South east Skye	2
James Boswell	October 3rd to 8th, 1773: Coll	2
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	2
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	2
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	2
Samuel Johnson	South to Glasgow and Auchinleck	2
John Wesley	1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs	2
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	2
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	2
Thomas Pennant	September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix IV: Of the Murder of a Laird of Innes	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	1
James Boswell	October 17th to 22nd, 1773: Inchkenneth and Iona	1
James Boswell	October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire	1
William Camden	Romans in Britaine (2)	1
Charles Wesley	1745: London, Bristol and South Wales	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	1
Robert Gammage	To Scotland in 1843	1
Samuel Johnson	Inch Keith and St. Andrews	1
Samuel Johnson	Aberdeen	1
Samuel Johnson	Glen Shiel and Glen Elg	1
Samuel Johnson	Arrival on Skye; Armadale	1
Samuel Johnson	Ulva and Inch Kenneth	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
Thomas Pennant	Tyringham to Woburn	1
Thomas Pennant	August 1-6: Loch Tay to Deeside	1
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	1
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	1
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	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
Calton Hill	0	1
Canongate	0	2
Broughton	0	1
Abbey	0	3
Holyrood	0	1
Salisbury Crags	0	1
Abbeyhill	0	2
Arthurs Seat	0	2
Bonnington	0	2
Jocks Lodge	0	2
Duddingston	0	3
Leith	0	2
Tynecastle	0	2
Restalrig	0	2
Newhaven	0	2
Gorgie	0	2
Granton	0	2
Craigmillar	0	2
Liberton	0	2
Blackhall	0	2