Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Arniefoul village Bartholomew
Arniefoul a village Groome
Ballandarg a burn Groome
Ballandary small stream Bartholomew
Charleston a village Groome
Charleston of Glamis village Bartholomew
Cossans place, with remarkable sculptured obelisk Bartholomew
Craigowl summit Bartholomew
Gairie a rivulet Groome
Gateside village Bartholomew
Glamis Castle the seat Groome
Glenogilvie estate Bartholomew
Glenogilvie an estate Groome
Glen Ogilvie glen Bartholomew
Grasshouses village Bartholomew
Hayston Hill hill Bartholomew
Hunter's Hill hill Bartholomew
Milton hamlet with 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 Glamis 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 2
William Camden Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall 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
Douglastown 0 2
Kinettles 0 2
Eassie and Nevay 0 3
Kirriemuir 0 2
Inverarity 0 2
Forfar 1 2
Airlie 0 2
Tealing 0 2
Auchterhouse 0 2
Kingoldrum 0 2
Meigle 0 1
Ruthven 0 2
Newtyle 0 2
Restennet 0 2
Kirkton of Strathmartine 0 1
Baldovan 0 2
Dunnichen 0 2
Lintrathen 0 2
Cortachy 0 2
Claverhouse 0 2