Peebles, Peebles Shire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Peebles royal burgh Bartholomew
Peebles a royal and police burgh, the county town of Peeblesshire Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Gatehope affluent Bartholomew
Glensax a burn Groome
Haystoun a farmhouse Groome
Kerfield an estate, with a modern two-story mansion Groome
Kingsmeadows the seat Groome
Neidpath Castle an old baronial fortalice Groome
Rosetta a mansion Groome
Swinton Bank a mansion Groome
Venlaw a 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 Peebles 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.
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central 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 Historical Gazetteer
Kailzie 0 2
Manor 0 2
Lyne 0 3
Eddleston 0 3
Stobo 0 2
Innerleithen 0 2
Traquair 2 2
Newlands 0 2
Walkerburn 0 2
Romanno Bridge 0 2
Dewar 0 2
Kirkurd 0 2
Drumelzier 1 2
Broomlee 0 2
Broughton 0 3
Leadburn 0 2
West Linton 1 3
Dolphinton 0 2
Yarrow 0 2
Kilbucho 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
PEBLIS William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
PEEBLES John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

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.