Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bower	a hamlet	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Amatan	a burn	Groome
Barrock	hamlet	Bartholomew
Howe	hamlet	Bartholomew
Lyth	village	Bartholomew
Lyth	a village	Groome
Stanstill	school	Bartholomew
Stemster	hamlet with school	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 Bower 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	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
Olrig	0	2
Castletown	0	2
Dunn	0	2
Watten	0	2
Dunnet	0	2
Murkle	0	2
Wester	0	1
Killimster	0	2
Braal	0	2
Rattar	0	2
Keiss	0	2
Mey	0	2
Spittal	0	1
Skinnet	0	1
Halkirk	0	2
Harpsdale	0	1
Gills	0	2
Altimarlach	0	2
Thurso	0	3
Ackergill	0	2