Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barleyknowe	a hamlet	Groome
Easthouses	village	Bartholomew
Hunterfield	a village	Groome
Newton Grange	village	Bartholomew
Newton-Grange	a village	Groome
Woodburn	seat	Bartholomew
Woodburn	a modern mansion	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 Newbattle 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	3
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	3
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	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
Dalkeith	8	2
Newton Grange	0	2
Lugton	0	2
Bonnyrigg	0	2
Lasswade	1	2
Cockpen	0	2
Esk	0	2
Millerhill	0	1
Smeaton	0	2
Newton	0	2
Polton	0	2
Gorebridge	0	2
Gilmerton	0	2
Loanhead	0	2
Carberry	0	2
Rosewell	0	2
Carrington	0	2
Cousland	0	2
Ford	0	2
Burdiehouse	0	2