Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Daviot

Daviot, hamlet with church and school, Daviot and Dunlichty par., in co. and 6½ miles SE. of Inverness; P.O.; 1 mile NE., on river Nairn, is Daviot House; adjacent are the remains of Daviot Castle (15th century), a stronghold of the Earls of Crawford; in vicinity of church is Dun-Daviot, a hill used in old times as a signal station.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet with church and school"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Daviot and Dunlichity ScoP       Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place: Daviot

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