Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Golspie	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Backies	hamlet	Bartholomew
Backies	a hamlet	Groome
Ben-a-Bhragie	a mountain	Groome
Ben Bhragie	mountain	Bartholomew
Benlundie	a mountain	Groome
Dunrobin Castle	the Scottish seat	Groome
Ferry, Little	a ferry	Groome
Gillander	a cave	Groome
Gillander's Cave		Bartholomew
Lundie, Loch	a lake	Groome
Morvich House	seat	Bartholomew
Mound, The	railway station	Bartholomew
Salachie, Loch (Loch-an-t-Salachaidh)		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 Golspie 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	Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	2
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	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
Dunrobin	0	2
Culmaily	0	1
Littleferry	0	2
Doll	0	1
Skelbo	0	2
Embo	0	2
Brora	0	2
Kilcalmkill	0	3
Rogart	0	2
Dornoch	2	4
Kintradwell	0	1
Skibo	0	2
Clyne	0	2
Carn Bran	0	2
Loth	0	2
Portmahomack	0	2
Tarbat	2	2
Tain	3	2
Edderton	0	2
Balblair	0	2