Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Auldearn. You may be able to find further references to Auldearn in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Auldearn a post office village Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Auldearn.

Place Type of entry Source
Inchoch Castle an old baronial fortalice Groome
Innerwick in Glenlyon Bartholomew
Inshoch Castle old baronial fortalice Bartholomew
Laken hamlet Bartholomew
Laken a hamlet Groome
Lethen House seat Bartholomew
Lethen House an 18th century mansion Groome
Moyness a village Groome
Moyness village Bartholomew
Pennick hamlet Bartholomew
Pennick a small village Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Auldearn within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Lochloy 0 1
Nairn 9 5
Rait 0 1
Lethen 0 2
Geddes 0 1
Brodie 0 2
Darnaway 0 2
Dyke 0 2
Cawdor 2 2
Relugas 0 2
Ardclach 0 2
Dunphail 0 2
Culbin 0 2
Altyre 0 2
Kilravock 0 2
Ardersier 0 4
Forres 11 3
Edinkillie 0 3
Croy 0 2
Dulsie 0 2