Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Montrose	a parish containing a royal burgh	Groome
Montrose	a seat of manufacture	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Broomfield	a station	Groome
Charleton	seat	Bartholomew
Dubton	a railway junction	Groome
Hillside	parish and village	Bartholomew
Loanhead	place with school	Bartholomew
Rosemoint	seat	Bartholomew
Rosemount	an estate, with a mansion	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 Montrose 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	6
James Boswell	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	2
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	2
Samuel Johnson	Arbroath and Montrose	2
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	1
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
Thomas Pennant	July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh	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
Rossie	0	3
Ferryden	0	2
Craig	0	2
Hillside	0	2
Maryton	0	2
Dun	0	2
Lunan	0	2
Craigo	0	1
St Cyrus	0	2
Marykirk	0	2
Logie Pert	0	2
Farnell	0	2
Miltonhaven	0	2
Inverkeilor	0	2
Inglismaldie	0	2
Luthermuir	0	2
Stracathro	0	2
Brechin	9	2
Johnshaven	0	2
Garvock	0	2