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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "SHERIFFMUIR":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Auchintoul	Banffshire	Sheriffmuir. The mansion occupies a commanding site within ½ mile SW of Aberchirder; was partly built by General Gordon, and much	Groome
  Bothwell	Lanarkshire	Sheriffmuir (1715). In this old church, founded in 1398 by Archibald ` the Grim,' Earl of Douglas, for a provost and 8 prebendaries	Groome
  Douglas Castle	Lanarkshire	Sheriffmuir. He died childless at Queensberry House, Edinburgh, in 1761, when the ducal title became extinct, the Marquisate of Douglas	Groome
  Dunblane	Perthshire	Sheriffmuir, and elsewhere is occupied by heathy heights; but to the S of the town is all an assemblage of cornfields	Groome
  Dunning	Perthshire	Sheriffmuir to Perth, with the exception of a single house, on 14 Nov. 1715, it now is a neat little	Groome
  Erchless Castle	Inverness Shire	Sheriffmuir and Culloden. The Chisholm of to-day, James Sutherland Chisholm (b. 1806; suc. 1859), holds 94, 328 acres in the shire	Groome
  Falkland	Fife	Sheriffmuir, without taking part with either side in that struggle, marched to Falkland, and, seizing the place, levied contributions from	Groome
  Forfar	Angus	Sheriffmuir (1715), and with the Duke it expired (1761). One curious thing in connection with Forfar is the fact that	Groome
  Glamis Castle	Angus	Sheriffmuir, 1715; Charles, killed in a brawl at Forfar, 1728; James, died 1735; and Thomas, died 1753. John, ninth Earl	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Sheriffmuir. In the meantime the inhabitants had zealously provided for the safety of the city by constructing rude fortifications, protected	Groome
  Glenbucket	Aberdeenshire	Sheriffmuir (1715) and Culloden (1746). From place to place he was hunted, till, letting his beard grow and assuming the garb	Groome
  Gordon Castle	Banffshire Moray	Sheriffmuir (1715). The dukedom expired with the fifth Duke in 1836, when the marquisate of Huntly devolved on his fifth	Groome
  Peeblesshire or Tweeddale	Peebles Shire	Sheriffmuir in Stobo, near Tweedsmuir church, and at Gatehope in Innerleithen. Tombs and tumuli with stone coffins and human remains	Groome
  Perthshire	Perthshire	Sheriffmuir, Methven, Alyth, Dunsinane, and other moors; but much of these have now been reclaimed for agriculture. Climate. —The climate	Groome
  Sheriffmuir	Perthshire	Sheriffmuir, a battlefield in Dunblane parish, Perthshire, on the north-western slope of the Ochils, 2½ miles E by N of Dunblane	Groome
  Sheriffmuir	Perthshire	Sheriffmuir , battlefield, in par., and 2 miles E. of Dunblane, Perthshire; an indecisive battle was fought here in 1715 between	Bartholomew
  Stobo	Peebles Shire	Sheriffmuir; the three hill-forts of Kerr's Knowe, Hog Hill, and Dreva Craig; and the site of a feudal	Groome

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