The Life of Samuel Johnson

Index of Places

Aberdeen 337, 340, 402, 403, 418, 654, 720, 758, 883

Abyssinia 51, 52, 53

Adbaston, Staffordshire 76

Adelphi, Durham Yard 816, 818

Aleppo 723, 774

Alkerton, Oxfordshire 109

Alnwick Castle, Northumberland 335, 670

America, American Colonies and Americans 196, 277, 370, 371, 381, 430, 431, 481, 555, 632, 634, 643, 680, 759, 773, 809, 820, 842, 920, 939, 962

Anglesey 413

Appleby, Leicestershire 77

Apsley, Bedfordshire 94

Argyllshire 403

Ashbourne, Derbyshire 104, 512, 518, 519, 590, 592, 593–635, 851, 962

Asia 363

Auchinleck, Ayrshire 8, 243, 298, 405, 483, 619, 620, 637, 757, 852, 855, 895, 909

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire 557

Ayrshire 805

Babylon 136

Ballinacrazy 660

Baltic, the 416, 594

Bangor, North Wales 413

Barbados 946

Barbary 470

Barnet, Hertfordshire 521

Barton, Yorkshire 132

Bath, Somersetshire 209, 239, 332, 443, 522, 541, 751, 752, 759, 842, 856, 923

Batheaston, Somersetshire 443

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire 879

Beckenham, Kent 937

Bedford 837

Belanagare, Roscommon 580

Bengal 649

Berwick 403

Birmingham 25, 41, 50–51, 53–6, 507, 510, 512, 839, 972, 1001

Birnam-wood 557

Bishop, or Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire 294, 320

Blackfriars Bridge 187

Blair, Ayrshire 542

Blenheim Park, Woodstock 504

Bologna 363

Bosworth, see Market Bosworth

Bradley, Derbyshire 49, 195

Brecon, South Wales 597

Brentford, Middlesex 867

Brewood, Staffordshire 993

Brighthelmstone (Brighton) 297, 569, 596, 636, 759, 763, 852, 854

Bristol 95, 543, 544, 727

Brolas (misprinted Brolos), Mull 589

Bromley, Kent 132, 399, 957, 985

Brundusium 659

Buxton, Derbyshire 604

Caen-wood, near Hampstead, Middlesex 755

Cairo 688

Calais 378, 466

Cambrai 477

Cambridge 72, 256, 282

Canada 226

Carlisle 577, 584, 721, 748

Carthusian Convent, see monasteries

Chantilly 477

Chapel-House, Oxfordshire 504

Chatsworth, Derbyshire, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire 635, 961, 968

Cheshire 191

Chester 61, 745–7

Chichester, Sussex 854

China 52, 291, 668, 707, 797

City of London, see London

Clitheroe, Lancashire 854

Col, see Coll Colchester, Essex 246

Colisæum 315

Coll, Isle of, Hebrides 408, 657

Compiègne 477

Constantinople 777

Corsica 262, 273, 293, 298, 302, 303

Corte, Corsica 262

Covent Garden 136

Coventry, Warwickshire 191, 990

Cowdray, Sussex 854

Coxheath Camp, Kent 721, 726

Dalblair, Ayrshire 634

Dancala 52

Denbigh, North Wales 412

Derby 56, 519, 609, 610, 611

Derbyshire 518

Devonport, Devonshire 201

Devonshire 201, 941

Docking, Norfolk 289

Dover, Kent 305

Dresden 145

Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland 343

Dublin 77–8, 192, 205, 218, 240, 256–7, 615, 744, 887

Dumbarton 403

Dundee 833

Dunfermline, Fife 548

Dunkirk 699

Dunsinane 557

Dunvegan, Skye, the seat of Macleod of Macleod 669, 408

Durham, the city 502

East Indies, see India

Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire 31, 255, 760

Eddystone, the 201

Edensor, Derbyshire 635

Edial, near Lichfield 57, 336

Edinburgh: I. General 225, 369, 406, 517, 835; II. Places, Streets, Buildings 279, 375, 403, 583, 606, 718, 790, 850, 819; III. Johnson’s Visits 403

Egg, Isle of, Inner Hebrides 428

Eglintoune Castle, Ayrshire 240

Egypt 649, 714

Ellon, Aberdeenshire 442

Elsfield, Oxfordshire 147, 158

England and the English 106, 232, 326, 375, 459, 504, 561, 750, 861, 869, 900, 920

Essex 120

Falkland, Ireland 320

Falkland Islands, see Index of Works and Literary Characters: Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland’s Islands

Ferney, Switzerland 230

Florence 528, 649, 729

Fontainbleau 466, 472

Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire 403, 425, 656, 723

France and the French 7, 15, 106, 162, 163 n. b, 189, 239, 247–8, 326, 350–51, 466–79, 467, 478, 504–5, 524, 661, 699, 709, 714, 732–3, 770, 773, 859, 893

Friesland 250

Germany 239, 343, 651

Giant’s Causeway, Antrim, Ireland 744

Gibraltar 470

Glasgow 226, 237, 245, 403, 425, 585, 867, 984

Goa 47

Greece 362, 703

Green Room, of Drury Lane 112

Greenwich, Kent 62, 240, 242, 243, 742

Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire 554

Guadaloupe, West Indies 196

Gunthwaite, East Riding, Yorkshire 350

Gwaynynog, Denbighshire, family

seat of the Myddeltons 1000

Hamilton, Lanarkshire 403

Hampstead, Middlesex 108, 131, 755, 890

Harwich, Essex 244, 245–7

Heale, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, the seat of W. Bowles 891–4

Hebrides, see Highlands and islands

Helvoetsluys, Holland 247

Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire 507

Hertfordshire 723

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 870

Highlands and islands 138, 201, 217, 311, 326, 343, 404–5, 424, 429, 452, 630, 590, 701, 808

Hockley in the Hole, Clerkenwell 594

Holland 171, 246–7, 248–50, 610, 649, 919

Holy Land 619

Holyrood, or Holyroodhouse, Palace of, Edinburgh 790 n. a

Hummums, the 712

Hungary 772

Iceland 133, 962

Icolmkill (representing the Gaelic I Chaluim Chille) 403

Iffley, near Oxford 927

Ilam, see Islam

Inchkeith, an islet in the Firth of Forth 403, 421

India, or East Indies 362, 445, 452, 529, 530, 594, 739, 801, 802, 881

Indies, the 686

Inveraray, Argyll 403, 557

Inverness 403

Iona 403, 409

Ireland and the Irish 75, 168, 171, 173, 311, 323, 329, 330, 343, 346, 389, 393, 397, 427, 580, 595, 634, 651, 696, 744, 772, 980

Isis, the Thames at Oxford 927

Islam, or Ilam, Staffordshire 28, 104, 624

Isle of Man 561

Italy 239, 266, 290, 447, 533, 610, 661, 946

Jamaica 131, 133, 632, 748, 946

Jerusalem 408–9

Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street 263, 382, 493, 742

Justice Hall 309

‘Justitia’ 668

Kedleston, Derbyshire 609–10

Kilmarnock, Ayrshire 815

King’s Lynn, see Lynne (Regis)

Knighton, Staffordshire 76

Lanark 295, 583, 718

Langton, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire 157, 175, 251, 269, 335, 402, 720

Lauffeldt, Belgium 659

Leeds, Yorkshire, West Riding 739

Leek, Staffordshire 25, 595

Leeward Islands 507

Leicester 521

Leyden 895

Lichfield, Staffordshire, S.J.’s native city 24, 28, 31, 32, 36, 48, 53, 59, 198, 290, 335, 384, 423, 511, 512, 513, 514, 517, 560, 565, 637, 691, 745, 746, 817, 946, 967, 969, 971, 984, 989, 1001

Lincoln 717

Lincolnshire 30, 172, 717, 718, 877

Lisbon 530, 906

Lismore, or Lesmoir, Aberdeenshire, see Index of Persons, Others: Gordon, Sir Alexander

Liverpool 748

Llewenny Hall, Denbighshire 412

Loch Leven, Argyllshire 413

Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire and Stirlingshire 403, 729, 864

London: I. General 65, 69, 70, 172, 198, 212, 223, 300, 311, 323, 325, 327, 330, 348, 354, 376, 378, 423, 436, 452, 514, 518, 521, 529, 559, 564, 579, 599, 618, 619, 639–40, 646, 657, 661, 665, 679, 715, 716, 720, 727, 728, 739, 754–7, 825, 855, 874, 875, 879, 910, 939, 945, 961, 972; II. Localities, Streets, Buildings, Inns, etc. 60, 61, 65, 66, 74, 75, 78, 79, 83, 87, 89, 93, 94, 97, 98, 100, 107, 109, 112, 113, 120, 133, 134, 137, 149, 175, 176, 187, 207, 210, 212, 213, 221, 223, 224, 226, 231, 235, 237, 238, 240, 241, 243, 244, 251, 252, 259, 261, 263, 265, 266, 286, 294, 299, 304, 309, 320, 323, 328, 330, 333, 343, 344, 348, 349, 350, 354, 359, 362, 363, 374, 376, 380, 382, 386, 387, 389, 395, 400, 401, 415, 427, 440, 443, 452, 460, 466, 479, 482, 493, 496, 497, 498, 517, 522, 523, 525, 527, 529, 530, 531, 532, 536, 539, 557, 568, 579, 608, 612, 620, 632, 640, 642, 665, 670, 671, 686, 687, 689, 692, 698, 708, 713, 728, 734, 742, 751, 754, 755, 756, 757, 770, 776, 777, 783, 799, 803, 804, 811, 813, 814, 816, 820, 824, 839, 840, 845, 853, 855, 856, 863, 866, 867, 873, 874, 875, 876, 878, 879, 895, 897, 898, 902, 904, 912, 913, 919, 934, 935, 939, 942, 945, 950, 970, 985, 989, 993, 997, 1001, 1002; see also Thames, the

Lorne, district of Argyllshire 704

Loudoun, Ayrshire 403

Loughborough, Leicestershire 519

Luton, Bedfordshire 834

Lynne (Regis), King’s Lynn, Norfolk 10, 82, 156

Mamhead, Devonshire 460

Man, Isle of, see Isle of Man

Manchester 587, 590

Mandoa, or Mandu, Dhar State, Central India 353

Manyfold, Derbyshire river 624

Margate, Kent 865

Market Bosworth, Leicestershire 50, 518, 993

Massingham, Norfolk 838

Mediterranean, the 537

Milan 197

Minorca 353, 656

Monymusk, Aberdeenshire 574

Mull, Inner Hebrides 504, 686

Naples 528

Netherlands 247, 702

Neufchatel 374

New England 962

New Zealand 543

Newcastle, Northumberland 402, 403, 684, 736

Newport, Shropshire 32, 76

Nimes, France 470

Norbury Park, Surrey 786

Norfolk 82

Northumberland 350, 670

Norway 225, 312

Nottingham 972

Noyon, France 477

Okerton, misprint for Alkerton 109

Otaheite, or Tahiti 384, 393, 543, 620–21

Oxford: I. General 43, 74, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153–4, 282, 289, 328, 359, 434, 439–41, 459, 492, 498, 501, 513, 526, 531, 665, 689, 738, 767, 778, 814, 919–21, 923, 926, 934, 974, 983; II. Colleges, buildings, inns, etc., and places 9, 13, 38, 39, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 51, 53, 109, 134–5, 147, 148, 150, 152, 164, 179, 255, 282, 287, 308, 411, 414, 491–3, 498, 500, 501, 502, 504, 656, 686-8, 689, 698, 717, 722, 838, 859, 893, 920, 922, 927, 932, 934, 935, 970, 973, 983, 1001

Padua 45, 173, 198

Pallas, Co. Longford, Ireland 563

Palmyra 833

Paris and suburbs 469–77, 478, 661, 678, 919, 995

Partney, Lincolnshire 269

Petworth, Sussex 854

Plymouth, Devon 201, 202, 806

Poland 772

Port Eliot, Lord Eliot’s estate at St German’s, Cornwall 947

Portugal 193–4

Prestick, or Prestwick, Ayrshire 406

Preston, Lancashire 595

Prestonfield, see Index of Persons, Others: Dick, Sir Alexander

Raasay, Inner Hebrides 403, 408, 590

Ranelagh, Chelsea 322, 350, 630

Red Sea 594

Rewley Abbey, Oxford 148

Rhone, the 916

Rochefort, expedition to 14, 172

Rochester, Kent 60, 767, 774, 890

Russia 291, 311, 462, 707, 751

St Albans, Hertfordshire 521

St Andrews, Fife 403

St Asaph, Flintshire 413

St Cast, Cotes du Nord, France 181

St Cross, see Winchester

St Gluvias, Cornwall 231

St Kilda, Outer Hebrides 237, 289, 340, 341

St Quentin, Aisne, France 477

Salisbury, Wiltshire 891, 893

Scotland and the Scots 75, 106, 205, 206, 208, 217, 225, 242, 271, 276, 290, 300, 301, 307, 324, 330, 338, 345–6, 347, 351, 352, 360, 363, 368, 375, 377, 385, 389, 403, 410, 414, 418, 421, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 430, 436, 452, 456, 478, 483, 486, 494, 495, 507, 508, 519, 544, 557, 560, 561, 574, 578, 590, 619, 649, 655, 658, 665, 724, 732, 743, 744, 747, 768, 776 n. a, 819, 833 n. a, 834, 835–6, 843, 858, 866, 884 n. a, 899, 900, 906–8, 909, 922

Shefford, Bedfordshire 836

Shrewsbury, Shropshire 362

Shropshire 38

Skye, Inner Hebrides 403, 730

Snowdon, North Wales 413

Southill, Bedfordshire 141, 169, 579, 737, 828, 830–36

Spain 75, 195, 239, 354; see also Index of Subjects: Salamanca, University of

Sparta 353, 682

Staffa, Inner Hebrides 590, 594

Staffordshire 323, 511, 684, 699, 876; see also Lichfield

Stevenage, Hertfordshire 687

Stourbridge, Worcestershire 31

Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire 297, 506, 516

Strathaven, Lanark 718

Streatham, Middlesex 259, 301, 523, 644, 645, 657, 712, 734, 839, 845, 850, 853, 854

Swansea, Glamorgan 95

Sweden 174, 343

Switzerland 413

Tartary 343

Taunton, Somerset 780

Tempe 686

Teneriffe 962

Thames, the 241, 242, 382, 496, 776

Thebes 355

Thorpe Hall, East Riding, Yorkshire 717, 761

Tiber 659

Trentham, Staffordshire 25

Trevecca, Brecon 661

Turin 745

Turkey and the Turks 362, 489, 859, 873

Twickenham, Middlesex 323, 455–6

Tyburn 868

Ulva, islet off Mull, Inner Hebrides 594

Utrecht 212, 248, 265

Uttoxeter, Staffordshire 971

Valencia 758

Valleyfield, see Index of Persons, Others: Preston, Sir Charles

Venice 194, 528

Versailles 466, 473–4

Volga 916

Vranyker, Holland 250

Wales and the Welsh 173, 340, 413–14, 465, 594–5, 671

Warley Common, Essex 718–19, 721, 723

Warrington, Lancashire 748

Watford, Hertfordshire 369

Welwyn, Hertfordshire 829

West Indies 507; see also Jamaica; Index of Subjects: slaves and slavery

Western Islands or Isles, see Highlands and islands

Wheatley, Oxfordshire 934

Wickham, see High Wycombe

Wilton, or Wilton House, Wiltshire, seat of the Earl of Pembroke 437, 460, 584

Wiltshire 893

Winchester, Hampshire 320, 588

Winchester College, Winchester 722; see Winchester for S.J.’s other visits

Windsor, Berkshire 136, 937

Wittenberg, Saxony 586

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 348

Woodstock, see Blenheim Park

Woolwich 668

Worcester 618, 650

Wrabness, Essex 192

Wrexham, Denbighshire 388

Wycombe, see High Wycombe

York 761, 762, 909

Yorkshire 719

Zeila, or Zaila, British Somaliland 52