Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Inveresk	a village and a coast parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Carberry	a hill an	Groome
Carberry Hill		Bartholomew
Cowpits	village	Bartholomew
Cowpits	a village	Groome
Craighall, Old	a collier village, with a school	Groome
Crossgatehall	hamlet	Bartholomew
Crossgatehall	a hamlet	Groome
Edgebucklin Brae		Bartholomew
Hailes, New	seat	Bartholomew
Levenhall	village	Bartholomew
Monkton	a mansion	Groome
Monktonhall	hamlet	Bartholomew
Monktonhall	a hamlet	Groome
Newhailes	a mansion	Groome
Old Craighall	colliery village	Bartholomew
Pinkie	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Pinkie House	seat	Bartholomew
Smeaton	a railway station	Groome
Smeaton	railway station	Bartholomew
Wallyford	colliery village	Bartholomew
Wallyford	a collier 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 Inveresk 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 11: South-Eastern Scotland	4

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
Pinkie	0	2
Musselburgh	16	2
Carberry	0	2
Smeaton	0	2
Esk	0	2
Morrisons Haven	0	2
Millerhill	0	1
Easter Duddingston	0	1
Newton	0	2
Cousland	0	2
Prestonpans	4	4
Lugton	0	2
Portobello	0	2
Elphinstone	0	2
Dalkeith	8	2
Craigmillar	0	2
Tranent	0	2
Newbattle	5	2
Cockenzie	0	2
Duddingston	0	3