Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Glenorchy and Innishail	a large Highland parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Glenlochy	a bleak, bare glen	Groome
Glenstrae	a deep and sombre glen	Groome
Inchdrynich	an estate, with a modern mansion	Groome
Inverawe House, New	seat	Bartholomew
Inverawe, New or Tirvane	an estate of 862 acres, with a mansion	Groome
Inveroran	place with inn	Bartholomew
Kingshouse	inn	Bartholomew
Lochy	a stream	Groome
Strae	rivulet	Bartholomew
Tulla	rivulet	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 Glenorchy 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	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	3
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	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
Beinn Dorain	0	2
Tyndrum	0	2
Tulla	0	1
Dalmally	0	2
Black Mount	0	2
Kilchurn	0	3
Crianlarich	0	2
Etive	0	4
Fraoch Eilean	0	3
Inishail	0	2
Buachaille Etive	0	2
Kings House	0	3
Cruachan	0	3
Lorne	0	2
Ardlui	0	2
Cladich	0	2
Dochart	0	2
Bonawe	0	3
Kilchrenan	0	2
Cairndow	0	2