Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland
The book's title page
AuthorFrancis Hindes Groome
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory
PublisherT. C. and E. C. Jack
Publication date
1901 (1901)
Media typeHardback book
Pages1762[1]
OCLC1050257987

Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland is a book by Francis Hindes Groome. It was published in 1901, by T. C. and E. C. Jack of Edinburgh, combining six volumes (titled Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical, and Historical) written between 1884 and 1885, along with initial revisions made in 1895 and subsequent smaller revisions.[2] It has entries for all of Scotland's cities, towns, villages and hamlets, beginning with Aven in today's Aberdeenshire and concluding with Zetland, the former name of Shetland. It also includes tourist attractions, historical sites and the histories of family names and clans.

In the book's closing 130-page "general survey" chapter, its sections are written by various notable contributors:[3]

Subtitled a "new edition", the book includes a 1901 United Kingdom census appendix and a map of Scotland by Collins Bartholomew.[3]

Today, the book is available in full at the A Gazetteer for Scotland website.[4] It also appears as part of The Gazetteer for Scotland,[5] produced by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is directly searchable within "A Vision of Britain through Time".[6]

The original six volumes were published by Thomas C. Jack, of Edinburgh, London and Glasgow.[7] They are archived at the National Library of Scotland.[8]

Composition

Upon the publication of the final volume of the initial survey in 1885, geographer John Scott Keltie wrote:[3]

Most articles seem to us to have been written or revised on the spot, the only method by which accuracy can be secured. In some cases, however, we have noticed statements that could not have been made had this plan been invariably adopted.

John Scott Keltie, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Volume 7, New Geographical Publications, p. 616

References

  1. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland - Open Library
  2. Groome, Francis Hindes (1901). Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a graphic and accurate description of every place in Scotland. National Library of Scotland. Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack.
  3. 1 2 3 Britain), Royal Geographical Society (Great (1885). Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Edward Stanford.
  4. "A Gazetteer of Scotland".
  5. "The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  6. "Vision of Britain - Expert Search". Archived from the original on 3 December 2008.
  7. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical, and Historical) - Wikimedia Commons
  8. "Volume 6 - Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland - Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901 - National Library of Scotland". digital.nls.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
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