Castleton, Roxburghshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Castleton parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
Castleton a large Liddesdale and Border parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Black Burn affluent Bartholomew
Black Burn a mountain rivulet Groome
Clintwood a vanished castle Groome
Dead water railway station Bartholomew
Dinlabyre an ancient chapelry Groome
Hermitage Castle ruin Bartholomew
Hermitage Castle a ruined stronghold Groome
Kershope Burn trouting stream Bartholomew
Kershope Burn a rivulet Groome
Larriston estate Bartholomew
Larriston an estate Groome
Lawston place with mineral spring Bartholomew
Liddelbank estate Bartholomew
Liddel Castle castle Bartholomew
Liddesdale valley Bartholomew
Mangerton Tower ruins Bartholomew
Milnholm Cross ancient cross Bartholomew
Newcastleton village with railway station Bartholomew
Ninestane Rig ridge Bartholomew
Riccarton a station Groome
Riccarton village with railway station Bartholomew
Saughtree railway station and school Bartholomew
Steele Road railway station Bartholomew

Travel writing

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

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
Kershope Foot 0 2
Kielder 0 2
Wellhaugh 0 2
Bewcastle 2 2
Ewes 0 2
Plashetts 0 2
Teviothead 0 2
Caerlanrig 0 2
Nichol Forest 0 2
Langholm 1 2
Penton 0 2
Carter Fell 0 3
Trough 0 2
Hobkirk 0 2
Bellbank 0 5
Gilnockie 0 2
Southdean 0 2
Bonchester Bridge 0 2
Eskdale 0 1
Solport 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CASTLETON 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:

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  • 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.