Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Tummel a lake and a river 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 Tummel 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 1-6: Loch Tay to Deeside 4
Thomas Pennant July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 1
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
Dunalastair 0 2
Schiehallion 0 1
Foss 0 2
Kinloch Rannoch 0 2
Garth Castle 0 2
Garry 0 3
Dalnacardoch 0 2
Fortingall 0 2
Dull 0 2
Rannoch 0 2
Taymouth 0 2
Castle Menzies 0 2
Kenmore 0 2
Weem 0 2
Blair Atholl 2 2
Acharn 0 2
Aberfeldy 0 2
Dalnaspidal 0 2
Glen Lyon 0 2
Tenandry 0 2