Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Scone	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Annaty	a burn	Groome
Bonhard	a farm	Groome
Bonhard	seat and farm	Bartholomew
Grassy Walls	vestiges of Roman camp	Bartholomew
Grassy Walls	a Roman camp	Groome
Stormontfield	village	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 Scone 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	7
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	3
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	2
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	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:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Bridgend	0	2
Kinnoull	0	2
Perth	25	3
Bertha	0	2
St Martins	0	2
Balbeggie	0	2
Kinfauns	0	2
Balthayock	0	2
Cairnbeddie	0	2
Redgorton	0	2
Guildtown	0	2
Luncarty	0	2
Rhynd	0	2
Moncreiffe	0	2
Huntingtower	0	2
Inchyra	0	2
Glencarse	0	2
Almondbank	0	2
Wolfhill	0	2
Stanley	0	2