Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dunkeld a small but very interesting town Groome
Dunkeld and Dowally a Strathtay united parish Groome
Dunkeld and Dowally united parish Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kindallachan village Bartholomew
Kindallachan a village Groome
Ordie loch Bartholomew
Ordie, Loch a lake 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 Dunkeld 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 July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 2
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 1
Thomas Pennant August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll 1
Thomas Pennant September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 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
Little Dunkeld 0 2
Birnam 0 2
Inver 0 2
Kincairney 0 2
Dalguise 0 2
Dowally 0 2
Caputh 0 2
Stormont 0 1
Forneth 0 2
Bankfoot 0 3
Clunie 0 2
Lethendy 0 1
Airntully 0 3
Logierait 0 2
Kinloch 0 3
Stanley 0 2
Kinclaven 0 2
Meikleour 0 2
Moneydie 0 2
Cargill 0 2