Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Glenelg	a coast village	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Arnisdale	village	Bartholomew
Arnisdale	a village	Groome
Barrisdale	a mansion	Groome
Barrisdale House	seat	Bartholomew
Ben Scrial	a mountain	Groome
Earir	school	Bartholomew
Glasnacardock	school	Bartholomew
Glenbeg	a glen	Groome
Hourn	a sea-loch	Groome
Inverguseran House		Bartholomew
Inverie	hamlet and seat	Bartholomew
Knoydart	district	Bartholomew
Laorben (Ladbar Bheinn)	mountain	Bartholomew
Nevis, Loch	arm of the sea	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 Glenelg 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.
James Boswell	Sept. 1st to 7th, 1773: Glen Moriston to Skye	5
Samuel Johnson	Glen Shiel and Glen Elg	2
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	1
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	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
Bernera Barracks	0	1
Balmacarra	0	2
Kyleakin	0	2
Eilean Donan	0	2
Dornie	0	2
Inverinate	0	2
Isle Ornsay	0	2
Plockton	0	2
Knoydart	0	2
Barrisdale	0	1
Stromeferry	0	2
Broadford	0	2
Sleat	11	4
Lochalsh	0	2
Inverie	0	2
Strath	0	2
Glenshiel	1	2
Lochcarron	0	4
Armadale	0	2
Dunscaith	0	2