Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Pitsligo	a coast parish	Groome
Pitsligo	coastal parish	Bartholomew
Pitsligo, New	a town and a quoad sacra parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Charleston	a village	Groome
Charleston	village	Bartholomew
Pitullie and Sandhaven	conjoint fishing village	Bartholomew
Pitullie or Sandhaven	a fishing village	Groome
Rosehearty	a fishing village	Groome
Rosehearty	fishing 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 Pitsligo 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	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
Tyrie	0	2
Strichen	3	2
Newbyth	0	2
Byth	0	2
Brucklay	0	2
Aberdour	0	2
Maud	0	2
New Deer	0	3
Buchan	0	2
Cuminestown	0	3
Pennan	0	2
Mormond	0	2
Monquhitter	0	2
Cairnbanno	0	2
Gamrie	0	1
Gardenstown	0	1
Craigston	0	2
Rosehearty	0	2
Troup	0	2
Old Deer	0	3