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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Peterhead. You may be able to find further references to Peterhead in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Keith-Inch | parlimentary and police burgh, sea town and parish | Bartholomew |
Peterhead | a parish containing a town | Groome |
Peterhead | a parliamentary burgh, a head-port, and the chief town | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Peterhead.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Berryhill | an estate, with a mansion | Groome |
Buchanhaven | fishing village | Bartholomew |
Buchanhaven | a fishing village | Groome |
Buchan Ness | a low but rocky peninsula | Groome |
Burnhaven | a fishing village | Groome |
Burnhaven | fishing village | Bartholomew |
Cairntrodlie | a village | Groome |
Cairntrodlie | village | Bartholomew |
Dundonnie | a small green islet | Groome |
Ellishill | an estate, with a mansion | Groome |
Ellishill | seat | Bartholomew |
Invernettie Bay | Bartholomew | |
Invernettie or Brickwork Bay | a bay | Groome |
New Seat | railway station | Bartholomew |
Ravenscraig | ruined castle | Bartholomew |
Salthouse Head | headland | Bartholomew |
Sandford Bay | 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 Peterhead 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 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 |
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Burnhaven | 0 | 2 |
Inverugie | 0 | 2 |
Boddam | 0 | 2 |
Buchan Ness | 0 | 2 |
Blackhill | 0 | 2 |
St Fergus | 0 | 2 |
Bullers of Buchan | 0 | 4 |
Longside | 0 | 2 |
Port Errol | 0 | 3 |
Cruden | 0 | 2 |
Hatton | 0 | 2 |
Rattray | 0 | 2 |
Crimond | 0 | 2 |
Mintlaw | 0 | 2 |
Ardallie | 0 | 2 |
Lonmay | 0 | 2 |
Old Deer | 0 | 3 |
Stuartfield | 0 | 3 |
Cairness | 0 | 2 |
Mormond | 0 | 2 |