A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Tain. You may be able to find further references to Tain in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Tain | a town and a parish | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Tain.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Inver | fishing village | Bartholomew |
Tarlogie House | seat | Bartholomew |
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 Tain 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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Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands | 3 |
Thomas Pennant | August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle | 2 |
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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Logie Easter | 0 | 1 |
Fearn | 0 | 2 |
Balnagown | 0 | 2 |
Kildary | 0 | 2 |
Edderton | 0 | 2 |
Dornoch | 2 | 4 |
Balblair | 0 | 2 |
Milton | 0 | 2 |
Skibo | 0 | 2 |
Tarbat House | 0 | 2 |
Kilmuir Easter | 0 | 2 |
Nigg | 0 | 2 |
Tarbat | 2 | 2 |
Embo | 0 | 2 |
Skelbo | 0 | 2 |
Portmahomack | 0 | 2 |
Littleferry | 0 | 2 |
Cromarty | 6 | 4 |
Sutors of Cromarty | 0 | 1 |
Invergordon | 0 | 2 |