Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Fordyce	a village and a coast parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bogmuchals	a hamlet with a public school	Groome
Bogmuchals	hamlet with public school	Bartholomew
Boyne	stream	Bartholomew
Boyne	an ancient thanedom, an ancient forest, and a burn	Groome
Durn	hill and stream	Bartholomew
Durn	a hill and a burn	Groome
Findlater	an estate	Groome
Glassaugh	a mansion	Groome
Glassaugh	railway station and seat	Bartholomew
Newmills	hamlet	Bartholomew
Redhythe Point	headland	Bartholomew
Sandend	a fishing village	Groome
Sandend	fishing village	Bartholomew
Tillynaught Junction	railway station	Bartholomew
Tillynaught Junction	a station	Groome

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 Fordyce 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 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	2

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
Glassaugh	0	2
Durn	0	2
Birkenbog	0	1
Findlater	0	2
Portsoy	0	2
Cullen	3	3
Deskford	0	3
Boyne	0	2
Cornhill	0	2
Ordiquhill	0	2
Portknockie	0	3
Boyndie	0	2
Findochty	0	2
Whitehills	0	2
Rathven	0	2
Grange	0	2
Alvah	0	2
Aberchirder	0	2
Banff	10	2
Duff House	0	2