Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Halkirk	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Acharainey	hamlet	Bartholomew
Achardale	a hamlet	Groome
Achavarn	a mansion	Groome
Achnavarn	a ruined ancient castle	Groome
Ben Alisky	mountain	Bartholomew
Ben Alisky	a mountain	Groome
Braal or Brawl	an ancient castle	Groome
Braal, or Brawl	ancient castle, now a residence for sportsmen	Bartholomew
Calder	loch, hill, and hamlet	Bartholomew
Dirlot Castle	an ancient fortalice	Groome
Georgemas junction	a station	Groome
Georgemas Junction	railway station	Bartholomew
Glutt Lodge		Bartholomew
Harpsdale	school	Bartholomew
Leurery	place with school	Bartholomew
Scotscalder	railway station	Bartholomew
Spittal	hamlet	Bartholomew
Strathmore	valley	Bartholomew
Westerdale	a place with a post office, Free church, and public school	Groome
Westerdale	hamlet	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 Halkirk 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	5

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
Braal	0	2
Skinnet	0	1
Harpsdale	0	1
Calder	0	2
Spittal	0	1
Westerdale	0	2
Dunn	0	2
Westfield	0	1
Thurso	0	3
Shurrery	0	1
Olrig	0	2
Murkle	0	2
Dirlot	0	2
Castletown	0	2
Scrabster	0	1
Bower	0	2
Halsary	0	1
Shebster	0	1
Watten	0	2
Brims	0	2