Place:


Keith Moray

 

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Keith a parish Groome
Keith a post-town Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchanacie place with public school Bartholomew
Earlsmill a station Groome
Earlsmill railway station Bartholomew
Tarry Croys 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 Keith 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.
John Wesley 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War 2
John Wesley 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1
Thomas Pennant August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East 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
Newmill 0 2
Grange 0 2
Botriphnie 0 2
Ruthven 0 2
Cairnie 0 2
Boharm 0 2
Enzie 0 2
Fochabers 0 2
Gordon Castle 0 2
Rothiemay 1 2
Glass 0 2
Bellie 0 2
Deskford 0 3
Dundurcas 0 2
Speymouth 0 2
Port Gordon 0 2
Balvenie 0 2
Huntly 0 2
Buckie 0 2
Rathven 0 2