Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Slains	a coast parish	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Slains.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Colliston	fishing village	Bartholomew
Colliston	a fishing village	Groome
Cotehill	loch	Bartholomew
Cotehill	a loch	Groome
Dropping Cave	stalactite cavern	Bartholomew
Forvie, Burn of	affluent	Bartholomew
Muckle or Meikle Loch	a lake	Groome
Pitlurg	seat	Bartholomew

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 Slains 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.
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	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
Collieston	0	3
Forvie	0	2
Logie Buchan	0	1
Newburgh	0	2
Foveran	0	2
Cruden	0	2
Hatton	0	2
Ellon	1	2
Port Errol	0	3
Ardallie	0	2
Bullers of Buchan	0	4
Ythan	0	2
Belhelvie	0	2
Blackhill	0	2
Udny	0	2
Boddam	0	2
Buchan Ness	0	2
Formartine	0	2
Burnhaven	0	2
Tarves	0	2