Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Strichen	a parish containing a small town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Mormond	a station	Groome
New Leeds	village	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 Strichen 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.
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	2
Samuel Johnson	Slains Castle and Banff	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
Mormond	0	2
Brucklay	0	2
Tyrie	0	2
Pitsligo	3	4
Maud	0	2
Rathen	0	2
Old Deer	0	3
Mintlaw	0	2
Lonmay	0	2
Stuartfield	0	3
Buchan	0	2
New Deer	0	3
Aberdour	0	2
Cairness	0	2
Crimond	0	2
Longside	0	2
Rosehearty	0	2
Newbyth	0	2
Fraserburgh	1	3
Byth	0	2