Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dunnet a village and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Brough fishing village Bartholomew
Brough a fishing hamlet Groome
Crossroads school Bartholomew
Dunnet Brough school Bartholomew
Greenland a hamlet Groome
Greenland village Bartholomew
Ham harbour Bartholomew
Lochend seat Bartholomew
Ratter hamlet Bartholomew
Ratter a hamlet Groome
Scarfskerry a hamlet Groome
Scarfskerry coastal hamlet Bartholomew
St John's Loch 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 Dunnet 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 V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland 2
Thomas Pennant August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness 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
Rattar 0 2
Castletown 0 2
Olrig 0 2
Murkle 0 2
Mey 0 2
Bower 0 2
Gills 0 2
Thurso 0 3
Scrabster 0 1
Canisbay 0 2
Skinnet 0 1
Braal 0 2
Huna 0 1
Stroma 0 1
Halkirk 0 2
Dunn 0 2
Wester 0 1
John O Groats 0 2
Freswick 0 1
Keiss 0 2