Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dee	a river	Groome
Deeside	the valley of the Aberdeenshire Dee	Groome
Glen Dee	valley	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 Dee 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	5
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
Thomas Pennant	August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll	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
Park	0	2
Drumoak	0	2
Durris	0	2
Peterculter	0	4
Maryculter	0	2
Echt	0	2
Skene	0	2
Cookney	0	2
Rickarton	0	2
Banchory	0	3
Cults	0	2
Banchory Devenick	0	2
Muchalls	0	2
Newhills	0	2
Strachan	0	2
Midmar	0	2
Nigg	0	2
Kinellar	0	2
Fetteresso	0	2
Portlethen	0	2