Useful Websites

Published on National Records of Scotland (https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk)

Useful Websites - Places

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

National Library of Scotland: map images [1] - Ordnance Survey, military and geo-referenced maps and town plans, 1560-1961
Addressing History [2] - a searchable historical database of towns and cities in Scotland
Old Maps Online [3]

Gazetteer of British place names [4]
Gazetteer for Scotland [5]
Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901 [6] (National Library of Scotland)

Historic Environment Scotland (formerly Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Canmore database) [7]
Lesmahagow Place Names Database [8] (National Library of Scotland)

Our town stories [9] (Edinburgh City Libraries).
ScotlandsPlaces [10]
Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845 [11] (free access in Historical Search Room)

Topographical Dictionary of Scotland by Samuel Lewis, 1846 [12] (British History Online)
Vision of Britain Through Time [13]

Source URL: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/visit-us/scotlandspeople-centre/useful-websites-for-family-history-research/places

Links
[1] http://www.nls.uk/maps/
[2] http://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk/
[3] http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
[4] http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/
[5] http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/gaztitle.html
[6] http://digital.nls.uk/gazetteers-of-scotland-1803-1901/pageturner.cfm?id=97491608
[7] http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/
[8] http://maps.nls.uk/projects/lesmahagow/#zoom=11&lat=55.6335&lon=-3.8800&layers=4
[9] http://www.ourtownstories.co.uk/#
[10] http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
[11] http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/
[12] http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=308
[13] http://www.gbhgis.org/