Borthwick, Midlothian : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Borthwick parish and hamlet Bartholomew
Borthwick a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Bellsmains hamlet Bartholomew
Catcune ruined castle Bartholomew
Clayhouses a village Groome
Clayhouses village Bartholomew
Currie an estate, with a mansion Groome
Currie seat Bartholomew
Dewarton a village Groome
Fushiebridge a village Groome
Gore Water a rivulet Groome
Harvieston an estate, with an old, thick-walled mansion, greatly enlarged Groome
Harvieston seat Bartholomew
Middleton House a mansion Groome
Middleton House seat Bartholomew
Newlandrigg place with school Bartholomew
Tyne river Bartholomew
Vogrie seat Bartholomew
Vogrie a plain mansion of recent erection 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 Borthwick 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.
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 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
Gorebridge 0 2
Crichton 0 2
Carrington 0 2
Temple 0 4
Pathhead 0 2
Ford 0 2
Newton Grange 0 2
Cockpen 0 2
Rosebery 0 2
Preston 0 2
Cranston 1 2
Fala 0 2
Newbattle 8 2
Heriot 0 2
Bonnyrigg 0 2
Rosewell 0 2
Dalkeith 13 2
Soutra 0 2
Lasswade 1 2
Cousland 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BORTHWIC William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
BORTHWICK 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.