Inveresk, Midlothian : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Inveresk coastal parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
Inveresk a village and a coast parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Carberry a hill an Groome
Carberry Hill Bartholomew
Cowpits village Bartholomew
Cowpits a village Groome
Craighall, Old a collier village, with a school Groome
Crossgatehall hamlet Bartholomew
Crossgatehall a hamlet Groome
Edgebucklin Brae Bartholomew
Hailes, New seat Bartholomew
Levenhall village Bartholomew
Monkton a mansion Groome
Monktonhall hamlet Bartholomew
Monktonhall a hamlet Groome
Newhailes a mansion Groome
Old Craighall colliery village Bartholomew
Pinkie an estate, with a mansion Groome
Pinkie House seat Bartholomew
Smeaton a railway station Groome
Smeaton railway station Bartholomew
Wallyford colliery village Bartholomew
Wallyford a collier 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 Inveresk 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 11: South-Eastern Scotland 4

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
Pinkie 8 2
Musselburgh 17 2
Fisherrow 2 1
Carberry 4 2
Smeaton 1 2
Esk 1 2
Morrisons Haven 0 2
Millerhill 0 1
Easter Duddingston 0 1
Newton 0 2
Cousland 0 2
Prestonpans 8 4
Lugton 0 2
Portobello 0 2
Elphinstone 0 2
Dalkeith 13 2
Craigmillar 1 2
Tranent 0 2
Newbattle 8 2
Cockenzie 2 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
INBHIR UISGE F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
INNERASK Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
INNER ESK Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
INNERESK Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
INVERESK 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.