Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Latheron	a coast village	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achavair	a hamlet	Groome
Achavair	hamlet	Bartholomew
Achavanich	place with public school	Bartholomew
Achnacrag	hamlet	Bartholomew
Achnacrag	a hamlet	Groome
Ausdale	hamlet and rivulet	Bartholomew
Ausdale	a hamlet and a burn	Groome
Berriedale	a river	Groome
Braemore	an upland tract	Groome
Braemore	hill tract	Bartholomew
Brenahegleish	hill	Bartholomew
Brenahegleish or Braigh na h-Eaglaise	a summit	Groome
Camster	a mansion	Groome
Clyth	bay, rivulet, ancient castle, and coastal hamlet with public school	Bartholomew
Clyth	a coast hamlet	Groome
Dunbeath	coastal village with school and inn	Bartholomew
Dunbeath	a village	Groome
Forse	fishing hamlet with inn	Bartholomew
Forse	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Halberry Head	promontory	Bartholomew
Knockinan	place with inn	Bartholomew
Knockinnan	a ruined fortalice	Groome
Langwell	the Scottish seat	Groome
Lybster	village	Bartholomew
Lybster	a coast village	Groome
Maiden Pap	hill	Bartholomew
Mid Clyth	a hamlet	Groome
Morven	a mountain	Groome
Morven	mountain	Bartholomew
Newlands of Clyth	hamlet with school	Bartholomew
Scaraben	mountain	Bartholomew
Swiney	village	Bartholomew
Swiney House	a mansion	Groome
Wheel	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 Latheron 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	2
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	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
Knockinnon	0	2
Lybster	0	2
Dunbeath	0	2
Clyth	0	2
Mid Clyth	0	2
Rangag	0	1
Bruan	0	2
Berriedale	0	2
Langwell	0	2
Whaligoe	0	1
Ulbster	0	2
Halsary	0	1
Dirlot	0	2
Thrumster	0	2
Strathmore	0	1
Sarclet	0	2
Ousdale	0	2
Westerdale	0	2
Hempriggs	0	2
Spittal	0	1