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Gazetteer

Gazetteer. For Scotland By Sandra M. Taggart. The Gazetteer for Scotland. Vast geographical encyclopedia Featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. Includes historical sites, tourist attractions and industry.

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Gazetteer

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  1. Gazetteer For Scotland By Sandra M. Taggart

  2. The Gazetteer for Scotland • Vast geographical encyclopedia • Featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. • Includes historical sites, tourist attractions and industry. • Histories of family names and clans. • Biographies of famous Scots and descriptions of historical events

  3. Such as: William Wallace 1274 -1305 Outlaw and defender of Scottish independence. Born at Elderslie near Kilmarnock. Defeated the English King Edward I at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Executed 1305

  4. Maps and Places • Old Counties of Scotland 1890 – 1974 • Inverness • Perth • Caithness • Aberdeen • Ross & Cromarty • Angus • Fife and more.

  5. Modern Council Areas Western Isles Orkney Highland Perth & Kinross Scottish Borders Shetland South Ayrshire and more

  6. Town House, Haddinton & Glasgow Cathedral Just a couple of pictures from the Gazetteer

  7. Glamis Castle Glamis is in Angus, home of the Earls of Strathmore – was a Royal hunting lodge from as early as the 11th century, when King Malcolm II (954 -1018) is thought to have been murdered there.

  8. General Survey Position, Boundaries, Extent and Area by H.A. Wester, sometime Honorary Editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Mountains, Lakes, Rivers and Islands by H.A. Wester, sometime Honorary Editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Zoology by John Gibson, F. R. P. S. History by William Melven, M.A. Gaelic Language and Literature by The Rev. Archibald Clerk, LL.D., Editor and Translator of Ossian.

  9. Source: http://www.scottish-places.info/

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