Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Laurencekirk	a parish	Groome
Laurencekirk	the only village	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Halkerton or Haulkerton	an estate	Groome
Haulkerton	estate	Bartholomew
Johnston	seat	Bartholomew
Mill of Conveth	estate	Bartholomew
Redmyre	school	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 Laurencekirk 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	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	3

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
Garvock	0	2
Kincardine	0	2
Luthermuir	0	2
Marykirk	0	2
Fettercairn	0	2
Fordoun	1	2
Craigo	0	1
St Cyrus	0	2
Auchinblae	0	2
Miltonhaven	0	2
Logie Pert	0	2
Inglismaldie	0	2
Johnshaven	0	2
Benholm	0	2
Arbuthnott	0	2
Hillside	0	2
Glenbervie	0	2
Gourdon	0	2
Stracathro	0	2
Bervie	1	5