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The following appear as names for Bridgeton. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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BRIDGETON | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
F.H. Groome | Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Bridgeton. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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BRIDGETON | Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
GLASGOW BRIDGETON | Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
GLASGOW NO 1 BRIDGETON | Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon) | 1891 Census of Scotland, Table 5, 'The Parliamentary, Royal, and Police Burghs, also the Parliamentary Districts of Burghs and of Counties, and Wards of Burghs showing the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English, and the number of Rooms with Windows'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Bridgeton, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Bridgeton, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bridgeton, in Glasgow and Lanarkshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21928/names
Date accessed: 06th October 2024