Useful Websites - Places

Click on the links below for online maps, gazetteers and databases:

• National Library of Scotland:  map images - Ordnance Survey, military and geo-referenced maps and town plans, 1560-1961
• Old Maps Online
• Gazetteer of British place names
• Gazetteer for Scotland
• Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901 (National Library of Scotland)
• Historic Environment Scotland (formerly Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Canmore database)
• Lesmahagow Place Names Database (National Library of Scotland)

• Our town stories (Edinburgh City Libraries).
• ScotlandsPlaces
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845 (free access in Historical Search Room)

• Topographical Dictionary of Scotland by Samuel Lewis, 1846 (British History Online)
• Vision of Britain Through Time