You searched for "GRUINARD" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, but the match we found was not what you wanted. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 12 possible matches we have found for you:

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "GRUINARD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Broom	Ross Shire	Gruinard island, Horse island, Du island, and a number of islets and skerries. It ramifies into Loch Broom proper in the N, Little	Groome
  Finlagan	Argyll	Gruinard, and abounds with trout and salmon, the former averaging ½ lb. each. An islet in it is crowned by the ruins	Groome
  Greenstone Point	Ross Shire	Greenstone Point , N. extremity of Rudha Mor prom., W. Ross-shire, between Loch Ewe and Gruinard Bay.	Bartholomew
  Greinord Bay	Ross Shire	Greinord Bay , Ross-shire. See GRUINARD BAY.	Bartholomew
  Greinord or Gruinard	Ross Shire	Gruinard, a bay, an island, and two streams of NW Ross-shire. The bay, forming the southern portion of the outward	Groome
  Gruinard Bay	Ross and Cromarty	Gruinard Bay , NW. Ross and Cromarty, between Loch Ewe and Little Loch Broom; contains Gruinard Island , pop. 6; receives Gruinard	Bartholomew
  Laide	Ross and Cromarty	Laide , place with school, Gairloch par., NW. Ross and Cromarty, on Gruinard Bay.	Bartholomew
  Little Loch Broom	Ross and Cromarty	Little Loch Broom , sea-loch, Lochbroom par., NW. Ross and Cromarty, between Loch Broom and Gruinard; strikes 8 miles SE.	Bartholomew
  Loch Gruinard, or GRUINARD BAY	Ross and Cromarty	Loch Gruinard , or GRUINARD BAY: which see.	Bartholomew
  Mellonudrigle	Ross and Cromarty	Mellonudrigle , vil., Gairloch par., NW. Ross and Cromarty, on W. side of Gruinard Bay, 6 miles N. of Aultbea.	Bartholomew
  Ross and Cromarty	Ross and Cromarty	Gruinard Bay, Loch Ewe, Loch Torridon, Loch Carron, and Loch Alsh. The largest streams are the Oykell, the Alness, and the Conon	Bartholomew
  Ross-shire	Ross Shire	Gruinard Bay flow the Gruinard river from Strath na Sheallag on the SE, and Little Gruinard river from Fionn Loch	Groome

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