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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Thurso. You may be able to find further references to Thurso in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Thurso | a parish, containing a town of the same name, and also a river | Groome |
Thurso | river | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Thurso.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Brimsness | a small headland | Groome |
Brims Ness | headland | Bartholomew |
Clett | rocky islet | Bartholomew |
Clett | a rocky islet | Groome |
Forss | seat | Bartholomew |
Harold's Tower | a monumental structure | Groome |
Holburn Head | a magnificent headland | Groome |
Janetstown | village | Bartholomew |
Scrabster | seaport village | Bartholomew |
Spear Head | headland | Bartholomew |
Weydale | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Weydale | a place, with a post office and a public school | 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 Thurso 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 V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland | 15 |
Thomas Pennant | August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness | 2 |
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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Scrabster | 0 | 1 |
Murkle | 0 | 2 |
Skinnet | 0 | 1 |
Olrig | 0 | 2 |
Westfield | 0 | 1 |
Castletown | 0 | 2 |
Brims | 0 | 2 |
Braal | 0 | 2 |
Calder | 0 | 2 |
Halkirk | 0 | 2 |
Dunnet | 0 | 2 |
Shebster | 0 | 1 |
Harpsdale | 0 | 1 |
Dounreay | 0 | 1 |
Bower | 0 | 2 |
Rattar | 0 | 2 |
Shurrery | 0 | 1 |
Dunn | 0 | 2 |
Spittal | 0 | 1 |
Reay | 0 | 1 |