Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Perth		Groome
Perth, District of	one of the districts into which Perthshire was divided by Act of Parliament	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 Perth 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 1: Fife and Perth	13
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	11
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	5
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	2
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	1
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	1
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix III: The Life of James Crichton of Clunie	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Bridgend	0	2
Scone	14	2
Kinnoull	0	2
Bertha	0	2
Moncreiffe	0	2
Huntingtower	0	2
Dunbarney	0	2
Aberdalgie	0	2
Rhynd	0	2
Kinfauns	0	2
Bridge of Earn	0	3
Almondbank	0	2
Redgorton	0	2
Forgandenny	0	2
Pitkeathly	0	3
Balthayock	0	2
Pitcairngreen	0	2
Tibbermore	0	2
Luncarty	0	2
Dupplin	0	2