Amber Valley, Derbyshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Douglas capital of the Isle of Man, seaport, and market town Bartholomew
DOUGLAS a town Imperial

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 Douglas 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.
George Head South from Douglas 9
George Head Ramsey; a Manx Wedding 6
George Head Arriving in the Isle of Man 5
John Wesley 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon 5
George Head The Foxdale Mines and the Calf of Man 4
George Head Point of Ayre and back to Douglas 3
George Head The west coast of the Isle of Man 2
George Head Up the West Highland Coast 2
William Camden Smaller Islands in the British Ocean 1
John Wesley 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland 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
Braddan 4 2
Onchan 0 4
Union Mills 0 2
Port Soderick 0 3
Baldwin 0 2
Marown 0 2
Santon 0 4
Lonan 0 2
Injebreck 1 2
Laxey 3 2
Foxdale 2 2
Ballasalla 0 2
Malew 0 2
St Johns 4 2
Derbyhaven 2 2
German 0 2
Snaefell 0 2
Cronk Y Voddy 0 2
Dhoon 0 2
Castletown 20 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
DOUGLAS John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
DUGLASSE 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.