Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Drainie a coast parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Branderburgh small coastal town Bartholomew
Branderburgh a small town Groome
Covesea a little village Groome
Gordonstown a mansion Groome
Kinnedar place with school Bartholomew
Lossiemouth a small coast town Groome
Seatown part of 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 Drainie 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 II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray 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
Kinneddar 0 1
Stotfield 0 1
Lossiemouth 0 2
Covesea 0 2
Spynie 0 2
Duffus 0 2
Elgin 19 3
Hopeman 0 2
Innes 0 2
Lhanbryde 0 3
Urquhart 0 2
Burghead 0 2
Alves 0 2
Kingston 0 2
Lossie 0 2
Garmouth 0 2
Pluscarden 0 2
Birnie 0 2
Speymouth 0 2
Bellie 0 2