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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wick. You may be able to find further references to Wick in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Wick | a large coast parish containing a royal burgh of the same name, and also a river | Groome |
Wick | a royal burgh, seaport, seat of trade, and the county town of Caithness | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wick.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Achern | a hamlet | Groome |
Achern | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Ackergill Tower | a mansion | Groome |
Altimarlach | a burn | Groome |
Altimarlach | rivulet | Bartholomew |
Auld Wick Castle | old fort | Bartholomew |
Auld Wick Castle | an old baronial fortalice | Groome |
Bankhead | a village | Groome |
Bilbster | an estate | Groome |
Broadhaven | a small bay and a fishing village | Groome |
Broadhaven | fishing village and bay | Bartholomew |
Castles Girnigoe and Sinclair | two neighbouring ruined fortalices | Groome |
Harland, Hill of | Bartholomew | |
Hauster | a burn | Groome |
Hauster (or Thrumster) Burn | Bartholomew | |
Hempriggs | village | Bartholomew |
Hempriggs | an old mansion | Groome |
Howe | a hamlet | Groome |
Janetstown | a village | Groome |
Janetstown | village | Bartholomew |
Keiss | fishing village | Bartholomew |
Kilminster | a hamlet | Groome |
Kilminster | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Newton | a village | Groome |
Newton | village | Bartholomew |
Nybster | coastal hamlet | Bartholomew |
Nybster | a coast village | Groome |
Papigoe | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Papigoe | a coast village | Groome |
Pulteney | part of town | Bartholomew |
Reiss | a village | Groome |
Reiss | village | Bartholomew |
Rosebank | seat | Bartholomew |
Sarclet | a small fishing village | Groome |
Sarclet | fishing village | Bartholomew |
Staxigoe | fishing village | Bartholomew |
Staxigoe | a fishing village | Groome |
Stirkoke | seat | Bartholomew |
Stirkoke House | a mansion | Groome |
Tannach | village | Bartholomew |
Tannach | a village | Groome |
Thrumster | hamlet with school | Bartholomew |
Thrumster House | a mansion | Groome |
Ulbster | coastal hamlet | Bartholomew |
Ulbster | a post office | Groome |
West Banks | school | Bartholomew |
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 Wick 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. |
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Thomas Pennant | August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness | 3 |
Thomas Pennant | Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland | 2 |
Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 2 |
William Camden | Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall | 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 |
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Pulteneytown | 0 | 1 |
Auld Wick | 0 | 2 |
Staxigoe | 0 | 2 |
Hempriggs | 0 | 2 |
Altimarlach | 0 | 2 |
Ackergill | 0 | 2 |
Sinclair | 0 | 3 |
Noss | 0 | 1 |
Thrumster | 0 | 2 |
Sarclet | 0 | 2 |
Killimster | 0 | 2 |
Wester | 0 | 1 |
Ulbster | 0 | 2 |
Whaligoe | 0 | 1 |
Keiss | 0 | 2 |
Bruan | 0 | 2 |
Watten | 0 | 2 |
Mid Clyth | 0 | 2 |
Bucholly | 0 | 2 |
Freswick | 0 | 1 |