Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Applecross	a hamlet and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kishorn	hamlet	Bartholomew
Milton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Shieldaig	village	Bartholomew
Torridon	hamlet with public school	Bartholomew

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 Applecross 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.
James Boswell	September 13th, 1773: Bonnie Prince Charlie's Escape	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
Shieldaig	0	2
Raasay	0	2
Plockton	0	2
Rona	0	2
Scalpay	0	2
Stromeferry	0	2
Kyleakin	0	2
Balmacarra	0	2
Lochcarron	0	4
Attadale	0	1
Torridon	0	2
Broadford	0	2
Portree	16	2
Strath	0	2
Dornie	0	2
Eilean Donan	0	2
Lochalsh	0	2
Skye	0	2
Carron	0	4
Bernera Barracks	0	1