Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Rothes	a parish containing a small police burgh	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aikenway	a high rocky peninsular tract	Groome
Aikenway	rocky peninsular tract	Bartholomew
Auchenroath	a hamlet and a mansion	Groome
Auchenroath	hamlet and seat	Bartholomew
Conerock	a conspicuous eminence	Groome
Dandaleith	a beautiful haugh	Groome
Inchberry	hamlet	Bartholomew
Inchberry	a hamlet	Groome
Orton	railway station	Bartholomew
Orton House	a mansion	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 Rothes 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.
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	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
Dundurcas	0	2
Craigellachie	0	2
Aberlour	0	2
Boharm	0	2
Archiestown	0	2
Birnie	0	2
Carron	0	2
Balvenie	0	2
Spey	0	2
Dufftown	0	2
Lossie	0	2
Speymouth	0	2
Mortlach	0	2
Botriphnie	0	2
Knockando	0	2
Fochabers	0	2
Lhanbryde	0	3
Gordon Castle	0	2
Urquhart	0	2
Bellie	0	2