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Gazetteer

To find where a particular town, village, or district is situated in Scotland there are various on-line resources that can be searched:

Undiscovered Scotland : An attractive website guide to many locations in Scotland, alphabetically listed

Ancestral Scotland: Try the placename search which will indicate within which Parish and County

Gazetteer for Scotland : Search from amongst 12,000 entries in this large on-line encyclopaedia

SCAN Gazetteer of Scottish Places : Scottish Archive Network placename search especially useful for places which have historically changed their name.

Country Houses of Scotland : Listing of rural houses by county from medieval times to 1850, and the families that lived in them

Scottish Place Names around the World :
As Scots emigrated around the world they often gave Scottish place names to the locations in which they settled. Most of these Scottish names are found in North America , Australia and New Zealand. But they also regularly occur in sub-Saharan Africa (there are at least 550 towns, suburbs, villages, mountains, rivers and other topographical features with Scottish place names in South Africa alone), and also in Asia (Aberdeen in Hong Kong is perhaps the best known).

To find where many other Scottish location names can be found around the world, go to:
A to E : F to Ob : Or to S

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Maps

Some places will be so small, for example the many thousand of individual farms and crofts around Scotland, that they will not appear on any of these gazetteers. The main chance of locating these is by manual searching in Ordnance Survey maps, modern or historical, back to the 1850's First Edition OS.

The National Library of Scotland has a range of historical maps from all over Scotland from 1560-1928 which can be viewed on-line.

National Library of Scotland also offer large -scale detailed Scottish Town Plans 1847-1895.

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