Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Buchanan	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Arklet	small lake	Bartholomew
Arklet	a lake	Groome
Balmaha	a hamlet	Groome
Balmaha	hamlet with pier	Bartholomew
Ben Lomond	a mountain	Groome
Bucinch	wooded islet	Bartholomew
Bueinch	a wooded islet	Groome
Clairinch	small island	Bartholomew
Clairinch	a Loch Lomond islet	Groome
Craigroyston or Rob Roy's Cave	a cavern	Groome
Glendhu	the upper glen of Duchray Water	Groome
Glen Dubh	upper part of valley	Bartholomew
Inchcailloch	a hilly, wooded island	Groome
Inchcruin	an islet	Groome
Incheruin	island	Bartholomew
Inchfad	island	Bartholomew
Inchfad	a fertile islet of Buchanan parish, Stirlingshire	Groome
Inversnaid	a hamlet	Groome
Inversnaid	hamlet with inn	Bartholomew
Rowardennan	an hotel	Groome
Rowardennan Hotel		Bartholomew
Stronachlachar	place	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 Buchanan 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	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	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
Drymen	0	2
Gartness	0	2
Balmaha	0	2
Kilmaronock	1	2
Inchcailloch	0	2
Killearn	0	2
Inchmurrin	0	1
Balfron	0	2
Jamestown	0	2
Gartmore	0	2
Camstradden	0	2
Alexandria	0	2
Luss	0	2
Bonhill	0	2
Buchlyvie	0	2
Bannachra	0	2
Renton	0	2
Blanefield	0	2
Leven	0	2
Lomond	0	3