A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Stirling. You may be able to find further references to Stirling in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Stirling | a small parish, containing the royal burgh | Groome |
| Stirling | a market town | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Stirling.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Craigforth | an estate, with a mansion | Groome |
| Raploch | a village | Groome |
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 Stirling 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 | 24 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth | 11 |
| William Camden | Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall | 6 |
| Thomas Pennant | September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh | 6 |
| Thomas Pennant | July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire | 3 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland | 2 |
| William Camden | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 1 |
| William Camden | Yorkshire: East and North Ridings | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland | 1 |
| Robert Gammage | Touring central Scotland | 1 |
| Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 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 Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Raploch | 0 | 1 |
| Cambuskenneth | 0 | 4 |
| St Ninians | 0 | 3 |
| Cambusbarron | 0 | 2 |
| Causewayhead | 0 | 2 |
| Forth | 0 | 2 |
| Bannockburn | 0 | 2 |
| Bridge of Allan | 0 | 5 |
| Blairlogie | 0 | 2 |
| Fallin | 0 | 1 |
| Lecropt | 0 | 2 |
| Logie | 0 | 1 |
| Auchenbowie | 0 | 2 |
| Cambus | 0 | 2 |
| Menstrie | 0 | 2 |
| Tullibody | 0 | 2 |
| Dunblane | 7 | 2 |
| Plean | 0 | 2 |
| Kincardine | 2 | 2 |
| South Alloa | 0 | 3 |