I have created a Lesmahagow Place Name Database that relates to the Old Parish of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire (comprising some 65 square miles).
I am pleased to say that, with the help of colleagues, the database has been hosted on the National Library of Scotland’s website and became live from 18th January 2016. The link to it is shown below.
Click on this link to a detailed gazetteer of place names in the old parish of Lesmagahow -
http://maps.nls.uk/projects/lesmahagow/ • 4,000 records which relate to over 600 place names in the old parish of Lesmagahow
• view the place names in different orders and search/filter on a text string
• click on the name to position the map at that location, and select from a set of 11 georeferenced maps (and satellite view), from the 12th to the 21st century, for viewing the name geographically
• useful for family history researchers, local historians, linguistic place name researchers and anyone with an interest in the area
Coming Soon - a new section will be added shortly which will deal with the meanings and origins of Lesmahagow Place Names. Also, an additional map (1816) will be added to the main list of map options.
