West Calder, Midlothian : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Calder, West parish and town with railway station Bartholomew
Calder, West a town and a parish Groome
Westcalder railway station Bartholomew
West Calder town and parish with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Addiewell a manufacturing village Groome
Addiewell village and railway junction Bartholomew
Cobbinshaw, or Cobinshaw station Bartholomew
Cobinshaw a station and an adjoining reservoir Groome
Gavieside village Bartholomew
Gavieside a village of recent origin Groome
Harburn railway station Bartholomew
Harburn an estate, with a mansion Groome
Hartwood seat Bartholomew
Hartwood an estate, with a mansion Groome
Hermand a mansion Groome
Hermand House seat Bartholomew
Leven Seat hill Bartholomew
Limefield an estate, with a modern mansion Groome
Limefield seat Bartholomew
Mossend a village Groome
Mossend village Bartholomew
Muldron seat and school Bartholomew
Muldron a mansion Groome
Newpark railway station Bartholomew
Newpark a station Groome

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
Mossend 0 2
Addiewell 0 2
Blackburn 0 2
Livingston 0 2
Bents 0 2
Cobbinshaw 0 2
Breich 0 2
Longridge 0 2
Bathgate 1 3
Mid Calder 0 3
Whitburn 0 2
East Calder 0 2
Fauldhouse 0 1
Auchengray 0 2
Armadale 0 2
Uphall 0 2
East Benhar 0 3
Kirknewton 0 2
Wilsontown 0 2
Torphichen 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CALDER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CALDER WEST John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
WEST CALDER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
WESTCALDER John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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