Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Castle Urquhart	ancient stronghold	Bartholomew
Glenurquhart	a finely-wooded glen	Groome
Glenurquhart	settlement with Post Office	Bartholomew
Glen Urquhart	glen	Bartholomew
Urquhart and Glenmoriston	a large parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bunloit	hamlet	Bartholomew
Lewiston	village	Bartholomew
Polmaily House	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 Urquhart 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 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	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
Drumnadrochit	0	2
Loch Ness	0	2
Boleskine	0	2
Foyers	0	2
Dores	0	2
Duntelchaig	0	2
Meall Fuar Mhonaidh	0	2
Stratherrick	0	1
Bona	0	2
Kiltarlity	0	2
Eskadale	0	2
The Aird	0	2
Dunlichity	0	2
Eilean Aigas	0	2
Beaufort Castle	0	2
Dochgarroch	0	2
Kirkhill	0	2
Kilmorack	0	2
Invermoriston	0	2
Glass	0	3