Alloa, Clackmannanshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Alloa parish and seaport and chief town Bartholomew
Alloa a river-port, a seat of manufacture, and the chief town of Clackmannanshire Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Alloa Inch island Bartholomew
Cambus village Bartholomew
Cambus a village Groome
Coalyland, or Collyland mining village Bartholomew
Holton (and Holton Square) mining village Bartholomew
Sauchie part of Bartholomew
Schaw Park a seat Groome
Schaw Park seat Bartholomew
Tullibody village Bartholomew
Tullibody 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 Alloa 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 7
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth 6
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland 1
Robert Gammage To Scotland in 1843 1
Thomas Pennant Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches 1
Thomas Pennant September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh 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
South Alloa 0 3
Westfield 0 2
Craigrie 0 2
Clackmannan 1 2
Sauchie 0 3
Cambus 0 2
Dunmore 0 2
Tullibody 0 2
Linn Mill 0 2
Elphinstone 1 2
Alva 4 2
Kennet 0 2
Fallin 0 1
Kennetpans 0 2
Kilbagie 0 2
Tillicoultry 1 2
Airth 0 2
Menstrie 0 2
Forth 16 2
Blairlogie 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
ALLOA John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
ALLOWAY Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
ALWAY William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.