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Places

— Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

— Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1856

Free access. From the home page just click on the login button.

A public resource with detailed historical information on places and maps, 1801 to 1901, created by the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information Systems Project.

Gazetteers

— Gazetteer for Scotland

A geographical encyclopaedia which includes text from Groome's 19th century 'Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland'.

— Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (Samuel Lewis, 1846)

— Gazetteer of British place names

— GENUKI gazetteer

— Ordnance Survey place names gazetteer

Maps

— Cassini: registration district maps

Cassini: registration district maps from the 1871 census.

— Charting the nation

Maps of Scotland and their associated archives 1550-1740.

— Multimap

Interactive map service displaying any location in map or aerial view format.

— National Library of Scotland

Includes digital images from the map collections (from 1560).

— Old maps

Landmark provides free searching by place-name or address of the earliest Ordnance Survey county series (1:10 560 scale) for Great Britain.

— Ordnance Survey maps, one-inch, 2nd edition, Scotland, 1898-1904

— Ordnance Survey maps, 6 inch to the mile, Scotland, 1840s-1880s