Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Jedburgh	the county town of Roxburghshire, a royal, parliamentary, and police burgh	Groome
Jedworth		Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bongate	a suburban village	Groome
Bongate	village	Bartholomew
Bonjedward	village and seat	Bartholomew
Bonjedward	a village	Groome
Camptown	hamlet, with traces of ancient camp	Bartholomew
Camptown	a hamlet	Groome
Dunian	a lumpish, round-backed, ridgy hill	Groome
Fernieherst Castle	a Border stronghold	Groome
Hartrigge	a mansion	Groome
Howdean		Bartholomew
Hundalee Cottage		Bartholomew
Hundalee Cottage	a modern mansion	Groome
Hunthill	an estate, with a modern mansion	Groome
Hunthill House	seat	Bartholomew
Jedfoot Bridge	a railway station	Groome
Langlee	seat	Bartholomew
Langlee	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Lanton	a village	Groome
Lanton	village	Bartholomew
Lintalee	seat	Bartholomew
Lintalee	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Monklaw	place with Roman camp	Bartholomew
Mossburnford	place	Bartholomew
Mossburnford	a place	Groome
Pleasants	school	Bartholomew
Scarsburgh	ancient circular camp	Bartholomew
Ulston	hamlet	Bartholomew

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 Jedburgh 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
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern 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 Hist. Gazetteer
Bongate	0	2
Bonjedward	0	2
Ancrum	0	2
Oxnam	0	2
Bedrule	0	2
Crailing	0	2
Eckford	0	2
Abbotrule	0	2
Denholm	0	2
Minto	0	2
Cessford	0	2
Longnewton	0	2
Rutherford	0	2
Grahamslaw	0	2
Edgerston	0	2
Maxton	0	2
Hassendean	0	2
Bonchester Bridge	0	2
Roxburgh	5	2
Hobkirk	0	2