Stirling, Stirlingshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Stirling parliamentary and royal burgh Bartholomew
Stirling a small parish, containing the royal burgh Groome
Stirling a market town Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Craigforth an estate, with a mansion Groome
Raploch a village 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 Stirling 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 24
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth 11
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 6
Thomas Pennant September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh 6
Thomas Pennant July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland 2
William Camden Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire 1
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland 1
Robert Gammage Touring central Scotland 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 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
Raploch 0 1
Cambuskenneth 1 4
St Ninians 1 3
Cambusbarron 0 2
Causewayhead 0 2
Forth 16 2
Bannockburn 3 2
Bridge of Allan 0 5
Blairlogie 0 2
Fallin 0 1
Lecropt 0 2
Logie 0 1
Auchenbowie 0 2
Cambus 0 2
Menstrie 0 2
Tullibody 0 2
Dunblane 8 2
Plean 0 2
Kincardine 2 2
South Alloa 0 3

Names from historical writing

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

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