Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aberdeen	the ' Granite City,' capital of Aberdeenshire, seat of a university, and chief town and seaport	Groome
Aberdeen and Banff Railway		Groome
Aberdeen Railway	a railway	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 Aberdeen 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 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	11
James Boswell	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	10
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	10
Samuel Johnson	Aberdeen	7
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	7
Thomas Pennant	Appendix IV: Of the Murder of a Laird of Innes	7
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	3
James Boswell	Sept. 1st to 7th, 1773: Glen Moriston to Skye	3
Thomas Pennant	August 1-6: Loch Tay to Deeside	3
Thomas Pennant	Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	3
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	2
James Boswell	October 3rd to 8th, 1773: Coll	2
James Boswell	October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire	2
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	2
Samuel Johnson	Elgin, Forres and Fort George	2
Samuel Johnson	Inverness, Loch Ness and Foyers	2
Samuel Johnson	Coll	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	2
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	2
James Boswell	Introduction	1
James Boswell	August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose	1
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	1
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	1
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle	1
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	1
Samuel Johnson	The economy of the islands	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	1
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix III: The Life of James Crichton of Clunie	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	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
Torry	0	2
Ferryhill	0	1
Old Aberdeen	0	1
Old Machar	0	2
Bridge of Dee	0	1
Woodside	0	2
Bridge of Don	0	3
Grandholm	0	2
Balgownie	0	1
Banchory Devenick	0	2
Cove	0	2
Cults	0	2
Nigg	0	2
Newhills	0	2
Dyce	0	2
Findon	0	3
Portlethen	0	2
Maryculter	0	2
Belhelvie	0	2
Peterculter	0	4