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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dundee. You may be able to find further references to Dundee in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Dundee | a town and a parish, or group of parishes | Groome | Dundee and Arbroath Railway | a railway | Groome | Dundee and Forfar Railway | a railway | Groome | Dundee and Newtyle Railway | a railway | Groome | Dundee and Perth Railway | a railway | Groome |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Dundee.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Baldovie | a post office hamlet | Groome | Baldovie | hamlet | Bartholomew | Broughty Ferry | a watering-place and little seaport | Groome | Claypots | an old castle | Groome | Craigie | an estate, with a mansion | Groome | Drumgeith | hamlet with school | Bartholomew | Drumgeith | a village, with a public school | Groome | Duntrune | a beautiful mansion | Groome | Lochee | district | Bartholomew |
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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 Dundee 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. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands | 5 | William Camden | Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall | 4 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 3 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth | 2 | Robert Gammage | Touring central Scotland | 2 | James Boswell | August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose | 1 | Samuel Johnson | Arbroath and Montrose | 1 | John Wesley | 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland | 1 | Thomas Pennant | July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray | 1 |
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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 |
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Dudhope | 0 | 1 |
Hilltown | 0 | 1 |
Lochee | 0 | 2 |
Mains | 0 | 2 |
Newport on Tay | 0 | 2 |
Claverhouse | 0 | 2 |
Baldovan | 0 | 2 |
Forgan | 0 | 2 |
Camperdown | 0 | 2 |
Invergowrie | 0 | 2 |
Kirkton of Strathmartine | 0 | 1 |
Mylnefield Feus | 0 | 2 |
Ferry Port on Craig | 0 | 3 |
Broughty Ferry | 0 | 2 |
Kingoodie | 0 | 2 |
Balmerino | 2 | 2 |
Liff | 0 | 2 |
Benvie | 0 | 2 |
Murroes | 0 | 2 |
Tealing | 0 | 2 |