Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Huna like this:

Houna or Huna, a hamlet in Canisbay parish, Caithness, adjacent to Houna Ness on the Pentland Firth, 3 miles W of Duncansbay Head, and 16½ N of Wick. It has a post office under Wick and an inn, and is the ferry station to Orkney.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Huna by doing a full-text search here.

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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 Huna 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	Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	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
John O Groats	0	2
Canisbay	0	2
Duncansby	0	2
Gills	0	2
Stroma	0	1
Freswick	0	1
Bucholly	0	2
Mey	0	2
Pentland Firth	0	2
Skerries	0	2
Swona	0	2
Rattar	0	2
Keiss	0	2
Wester	0	1
Dunnet	0	2
Bower	0	2
Killimster	0	2
Castletown	0	2
Sinclair	0	3
Noss	0	1