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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Paisley. You may be able to find further references to Paisley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Paisley | a large parliamentary burgh | Groome |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Paisley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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Feargus O'Connor | O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839 | 8 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland | 3 |
William Camden | Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall | 1 |
William Cobbett | Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere | 1 |
George Head | Selby and Goole | 1 |
George Head | Carlisle and the Solway Firth | 1 |
Thomas Pennant | August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness | 1 |
Thomas Pennant | September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Abbey | 0 | 2 |
Elderslie | 0 | 2 |
Inchinnan | 0 | 2 |
Linwood | 0 | 2 |
Renfrew | 1 | 3 |
Hurlet | 0 | 2 |
Househillmuir | 0 | 2 |
Nitshill | 0 | 2 |
Barrhead | 0 | 2 |
Johnstone | 0 | 2 |
Gateside | 0 | 2 |
Yoker | 0 | 2 |
Clydebank | 0 | 2 |
Neilston | 0 | 2 |
Darnley | 0 | 2 |
Jordanhill | 0 | 2 |
Govan | 0 | 2 |
Bellahouston | 0 | 2 |
Dalmuir | 0 | 2 |
Crosslee | 0 | 2 |