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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dornoch. You may be able to find further references to Dornoch in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Dornoch | a coast town | Groome |
Dornoch Firth | inlet of the North Sea | Bartholomew |
Dornoch, Firth of | the estuary of the river Oikel | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Dornoch.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Achavandra | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Achavandra | a hamlet | Groome |
Achvaich | a small strath | Groome |
Achvaich | small strath | Bartholomew |
Cairnaig or Carnach | a rivulet | Groome |
Clashmore | place with inn | Bartholomew |
Embo | fishing village | Bartholomew |
Embo | a fishing village, with a public school | Groome |
Evelix | a stream | Groome |
Rhiarchar | place with school | Bartholomew |
Skelbo Castle | ancient seat | Bartholomew |
Skelbo Castle | the ancient seat of the Sutherlands | Groome |
Skibo Castle | a modern mansion | Groome |
Skibo Castle | seat | Bartholomew |
Strath Carnach | valley | Bartholomew |
The Poles | Bartholomew |
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 Dornoch 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. |
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Thomas Pennant | Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland | 5 |
Thomas Pennant | August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle | 2 |
William Camden | Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands | 1 |
Thomas Pennant | August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness | 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 |
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Embo | 0 | 2 |
Skelbo | 0 | 2 |
Littleferry | 0 | 2 |
Skibo | 0 | 2 |
Tain | 3 | 2 |
Culmaily | 0 | 1 |
Edderton | 0 | 2 |
Balblair | 0 | 2 |
Golspie | 0 | 2 |
Tarbat | 2 | 2 |
Dunrobin | 0 | 2 |
Fearn | 0 | 2 |
Portmahomack | 0 | 2 |
Logie Easter | 0 | 1 |
Balnagown | 0 | 2 |
Kildary | 0 | 2 |
Rogart | 0 | 2 |
Milton | 0 | 2 |
Doll | 0 | 1 |
Tarbat House | 0 | 2 |