Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Methven a village and parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Almondbank a village Groome
Almondbank and Bridgeton village with railway station Bartholomew
Balgowan an estate, with a mansion and a railway station Groome
Bellstown hamlet Bartholomew
Bragrum hamlet Bartholomew
Bragrum a hamlet Groome
Craig-Gibbon a summit Groome
Dalcrue, or Dalcruive hamlet Bartholomew
Dalcruive or Dalcrue a place Groome
Dronach haugh Bartholomew
Dronach a haugh Groome
Lynedoch estate Bartholomew
Lynedoch Cottage or House a mansion Groome
Scroggiehill a village Groome
Scroggiehill 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 Methven 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.
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
Tibbermore 0 2
Almondbank 0 2
Pitcairngreen 0 2
Huntingtower 0 2
Moneydie 0 2
Findo Gask 0 3
Dupplin 0 2
Bertha 0 2
Redgorton 0 2
Aberdalgie 0 2
Luncarty 0 2
Madderty 0 2
Forteviot 0 2
Perth 25 3
St Davids 0 3
Forgandenny 0 2
Fowlis Wester 0 2
Bridgend 0 2
Bankfoot 0 3
Trinity Gask 0 2