Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Spynie or New Spynie	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bishopmill	town	Bartholomew
Bishopmill	a suburban village	Groome
Findrassie	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Quarrywood	place	Bartholomew
Westfield	seat	Bartholomew
Westfield	a plain two-story mansion	Groome

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 Spynie 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 II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	18
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	2
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	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
Elgin	19	3
Kinneddar	0	1
Drainie	0	2
Lossiemouth	0	2
Stotfield	0	1
Innes	0	2
Covesea	0	2
Duffus	0	2
Lhanbryde	0	3
Urquhart	0	2
Hopeman	0	2
Lossie	0	2
Alves	0	2
Kingston	0	2
Birnie	0	2
Garmouth	0	2
Speymouth	0	2
Pluscarden	0	2
Burghead	0	2
Bellie	0	2