Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kelso	a Border town and parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bony Brae	a place	Groome
Floors Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Floors Castle	the seat	Groome
Pinnaclehill	seat	Bartholomew
Rosebank	a mansion	Groome
Springwood Park	seat	Bartholomew
Springwood Park	a mansion	Groome
Sydenham	seat	Bartholomew
Sydenham	a mansion	Groome
Wooden House	a mansion	Groome
Wooden House	seat	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 Kelso 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	7
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	3
Robert Gammage	Ayrshire and Renfrewshire	2
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	2
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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
Sprouston	0	2
Ednam	0	2
Roxburgh	5	2
Stichill	0	2
Makerstoun	0	2
Nenthorn	0	2
Hadden	0	2
Grahamslaw	0	2
Hume	1	3
Eckford	0	2
Eccles	0	2
Birgham	0	2
Smailholm	0	2
Rutherford	0	2
Linton	0	2
Crailing	0	2
Morebattle	0	2
Cessford	0	2
Wark	0	2
Yetholm	0	2