Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Glasgow	the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland	Groome
Glasgow and South-Western Railway	a railway	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 Glasgow 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	20
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	13
Feargus O'Connor	O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839	7
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	7
George Head	Up the West Highland Coast	6
James Boswell	October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	5
George Head	The Caledonian Canal	5
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	4
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	3
Samuel Johnson	South to Glasgow and Auchinleck	3
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	2
James Boswell	October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	2
George Head	Carlisle and the Solway Firth	2
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
James Boswell	Introduction	1
James Boswell	October 17th to 22nd, 1773: Inchkenneth and Iona	1
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley	1
Robert Gammage	Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2	1
George Head	Selby and Goole	1
George Head	Ramsey; a Manx Wedding	1
Samuel Johnson	Elgin, Forres and Fort George	1
Samuel Johnson	Mull	1
John Wesley	1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery	1
John Wesley	1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	1
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	1
Thomas Pennant	September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	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
Barony	0	1
Gorbals	0	1
Calton	0	1
Dennistoun	0	1
Anderston	0	2
Bridgeton	0	2
Barrowfield	0	2
Govanhill	0	1
Pollokshields East	0	1
Kinning Park	0	1
Dalmarnock	0	1
Camlachie	0	2
Crosshill	0	1
Parkhead	0	1
Pollokshields	0	1
Hillhead	0	1
Blackhill	0	2
Crossmyloof	0	2
Rutherglen	0	3