Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Elgin	a parish containing a city and royal burgh	Groome
Elgin	a city and royal burgh, and the county town of Elginshire	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blackhills	a mansion	Groome
Elgin, New	a village, with a public school	Groome
Longmorn	a station	Groome
Westertown House	seat	Bartholomew
Westertown House	a modern castellated two-story mansion, with wings and a massive square central tower	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 Elgin 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	28
Samuel Johnson	Elgin, Forres and Fort George	6
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	6
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	4
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	2
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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:

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