Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Callander	a village and a parish	Groome
Callander and Oban Railway	a railway	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achenlauch	ancient fortification	Bartholomew
Achinlaich	an ancient fortification	Groome
Ardchullarie	a mansion	Groome
Ben Ledi	a mountain	Groome
Bocastle	a hill	Groome
Brackland or Bracklin	a waterfall	Groome
Coilantogle	a ford	Groome
Duncraggan	a quondam hamlet	Groome
Ellen's Isle or Eilean Molach	an islet	Groome
Gartney or Strathgartney	an upland tract	Groome
Gart, The	a fine mansion	Groome
Gart, The	seat	Bartholomew
Glenfinglas	a rocky glen	Groome
Glen Finglas	glen	Bartholomew
Glengyle	seat	Bartholomew
Keltie Water	a rivulet	Groome
Kilmahog	village	Bartholomew
Kilmahog	a village	Groome
Leny	a mansion and a mountain pass	Groome
Leny	seat	Bartholomew
Stob a Choin	mountain	Bartholomew
Trossachs	romantic mountain defile	Bartholomew
Turk	rivulet	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 Callander 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 Adams	Tramp Life	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
Kilmadock	0	2
Menteith	0	10
Thornhill	0	2
Inchmahome	0	2
Norrieston	0	2
Deanston	0	2
Doune	0	2
Trossachs	0	2
Aberfoyle	0	2
Blair Drummond	0	2
Kippen	0	2
Eilean Molach	0	2
Kincardine	2	2
Buchlyvie	0	2
Gartmore	0	2
Gargunnock	0	1
Balquhidder	0	2
Loch Earn	0	1
Lochearnhead	0	2
Dunblane	7	2