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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Elgin. You may be able to find further references to Elgin in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Elgin | a parish containing a city and royal burgh | Groome |
Elgin | a city and royal burgh, and the county town of Elginshire | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Elgin.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Blackhills | a mansion | Groome |
Elgin, New | a village, with a public school | Groome |
Longmorn | a station | Groome |
Westertown House | seat | Bartholomew |
Westertown House | a modern castellated two-story mansion, with wings and a massive square central tower | Groome |
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 Elgin 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 II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray | 28 |
Samuel Johnson | Elgin, Forres and Fort George | 6 |
Thomas Pennant | August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle | 6 |
James Boswell | August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres | 4 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands | 4 |
John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 2 |
William Camden | Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall | 1 |
John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 1 |
John Wesley | 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland | 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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Spynie | 0 | 2 |
Lhanbryde | 0 | 3 |
Drainie | 0 | 2 |
Kinneddar | 0 | 1 |
Innes | 0 | 2 |
Lossie | 0 | 2 |
Urquhart | 0 | 2 |
Duffus | 0 | 2 |
Lossiemouth | 0 | 2 |
Stotfield | 0 | 1 |
Birnie | 0 | 2 |
Covesea | 0 | 2 |
Alves | 0 | 2 |
Pluscarden | 0 | 2 |
Hopeman | 0 | 2 |
Speymouth | 0 | 2 |
Burghead | 0 | 2 |
Kingston | 0 | 2 |
Garmouth | 0 | 2 |
Fochabers | 0 | 2 |