Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tobermory	a seaport village	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 Tobermory 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.
George Head	Visiting Mull	5
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	4
George Head	Up the West Highland Coast	3
George Head	The Caledonian Canal	2
James Boswell	October 3rd to 8th, 1773: Coll	1
James Boswell	October 17th to 22nd, 1773: Inchkenneth and Iona	1
Samuel Johnson	Mull	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
Kilchoan	0	2
Aros	0	2
Ardnamurchan	0	2
Salen	0	2
Kilninian	0	2
Ulva	0	2
Morvern	2	3
Gometra	0	2
Mull	7	3
Lochaline	0	2
Inchkenneth	0	2
Acharacle	0	3
Cairn Na Burgh Beg	0	2
Torosay	0	2
Staffa	12	2
Kilfinichen	0	2
Muck	0	2
Kinlochmoidart	0	2
Coll	76	2
Duart	0	3