Blantyre, Lanarkshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Blantyre parish and two villages Bartholomew
Blantyre a parish Groome
High Blantyre village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchentibber village Bartholomew
Barnhill village Bartholomew
Calderbank an estate, with a mansion Groome
Calderbank seat Bartholomew
Camp-Knowe conical hill, anciently surrounded by a ditch Bartholomew
Causewaystones village Bartholomew
Craighead an estate, with a mansion Groome
Dlxon's Rows part of town Bartholomew
Greenhall seat Bartholomew
Greenhall a mansion Groome
Larkfield village Bartholomew
Millheugh a mansion Groome
Millheugh seat Bartholomew
Springwell part of town Bartholomew
Stonefield a thriving seat of industry and population Groome
Stonefield town Bartholomew

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
Stonefield 0 2
Burnbank 0 1
Bothwell 2 2
Flemington 0 2
Uddingston 0 2
Newton 0 2
Hamilton 9 2
Torrance 0 2
East Kilbride 0 3
Cadzow 0 2
Cambuslang 0 2
Bushyhill 0 2
Broomhouse 0 2
Carmyle 0 2
Chatelherault 1 2
Bellshill 0 2
Allanton 0 2
Clyde Iron Works 0 2
Quarter 0 3
Motherwell 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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