Newbattle, Midlothian : Historical writing

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 parish and village Bartholomew
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 Historical Gazetteer
Dalkeith 13 2
Newton Grange 0 2
Lugton 0 2
Bonnyrigg 0 2
Lasswade 1 2
Cockpen 0 2
Esk 1 2
Millerhill 0 1
Smeaton 1 2
Newton 0 2
Polton 0 2
Gorebridge 0 2
Gilmerton 0 2
Loanhead 0 2
Carberry 4 2
Rosewell 0 2
Carrington 0 2
Cousland 0 2
Ford 0 2
Burdiehouse 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Newbattle. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
NEUBOTLE F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
NEWBATTLE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
NEWBOTTLE William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.