Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dyke	a village	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brodie	an estate, with a mansion and a station	Groome
Broom	village	Bartholomew
Broom	a small village	Groome
Dalvey House	a handsome modern mansion	Groome
Darnaway Castle	a noble mansion	Groome
Dyke	village with school	Bartholomew
Kincorth	seat	Bartholomew
Kincorth	an estate, with an old-fashioned manor house	Groome
Kintessack	a village with a public school	Groome
Kintessock	village	Bartholomew
Moy, Broom of	a village	Groome
Whitemire	village	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 Dyke 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 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	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
Brodie	0	2
Darnaway	0	2
Forres	11	3
Culbin	0	2
Altyre	0	2
Lochloy	0	1
Rafford	0	2
Auldearn	0	2
Findhorn	0	2
Lethen	0	2
Kinloss	5	2
Relugas	0	2
Dunphail	0	2
Nairn	9	5
Rait	0	1
Geddes	0	1
Edinkillie	0	3
Ardclach	0	2
Dallas	0	2
Alves	0	2