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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 |
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DOUGLAS | a town | Imperial |
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. |
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George Head | South from Douglas | 9 |
George Head | Ramsey; a Manx Wedding | 6 |
George Head | Arriving in the Isle of Man | 5 |
John Wesley | 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon | 5 |
George Head | The Foxdale Mines and the Calf of Man | 4 |
George Head | Point of Ayre and back to Douglas | 3 |
George Head | The west coast of the Isle of Man | 2 |
George Head | Up the West Highland Coast | 2 |
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 |
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Braddan | 4 | 2 |
Onchan | 0 | 4 |
Union Mills | 0 | 2 |
Port Soderick | 0 | 3 |
Baldwin | 0 | 2 |
Marown | 0 | 2 |
Santon | 0 | 4 |
Lonan | 0 | 2 |
Injebreck | 1 | 2 |
Laxey | 3 | 2 |
Foxdale | 2 | 2 |
Ballasalla | 0 | 2 |
Malew | 0 | 2 |
St Johns | 4 | 2 |
Derbyhaven | 2 | 2 |
German | 0 | 2 |
Snaefell | 0 | 2 |
Cronk Y Voddy | 0 | 2 |
Dhoon | 0 | 2 |
Castletown | 13 | 2 |