Shotts, Lanarkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Shotts parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
Shotts a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Almond a river Groome
Caldercruix village with railway station Bartholomew
Cleland village Bartholomew
Cleland a village Groome
Dykehead village Bartholomew
Dykehead a village Groome
Gartness a village, with iron-works Groome
Gartness village, with woollen factory Bartholomew
Greenhill school Bartholomew
Greens school Bartholomew
Harthill Bartholomew
Harthill a collier village Groome
Hartwoodhill seat Bartholomew
Hillend village Bartholomew
Hirst Hill Bartholomew
Muirhead (or West Benhar) village Bartholomew
Muirhead or West Benhar a village Groome
Murdostoun Castle seat Bartholomew
Murdostoun Castle a mansion Groome
Omoa railway station Bartholomew
Salsburgh village Bartholomew
Salsburgh or Salysburgh a village, with a post office Groome

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Salsburgh 0 2
Dykehead 0 2
Hillend 0 2
Calderhead 0 2
Shotts Iron Works 0 2
Caldercruix 0 2
Stane 0 2
Bellside 0 1
Bonkle 0 2
Plains 0 1
Chapelhall 0 2
Blackridge 0 2
Harthill 0 2
Newarthill 0 2
Cleland 0 2
Clarkston 0 2
Newmains 0 2
Longriggend 0 2
Calderbank 0 2
East Benhar 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
SHOTTS 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.