The Gazetteer for Scotland is a vast geographical encyclopaedia, featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. The first comprehensive gazetteer produced for Scotland since 1885, it includes tourist attractions, industries and historical sites, together with histories of family names and clans, biographies of famous Scots and descriptions of historical events associated with Scotland. The network of connections between all of these entries make this gazetteer unique. Visitors will also find we have included the text of Groome's 19th Century Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland in our entries to provide a historical perspective.

With at least 18260 detailed entries, the Gazetteer became the largest Scottish resource available on the web, yet it is growing constantly, with some 81 entries added or updated in the last week alone. Please look at 'Gaz Stats' for more information.

Browse the Gazetteer for Scotland using either:

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You can also use the interactive facilities in our free Member's Area to make maps and add your own comments to individual entries.

NEWS FLASH ! You can now get Scottish places near you displayed on your iPhone from our database. Look out for iScotland on the App Store.

This Gazetteer is being developed by Bruce Gittings of the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.