Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Canisbay	a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Auchingill	coastal village	Bartholomew
Barrogill Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Barrogill Castle	a mansion	Groome
Bucholie	a ruined castle	Groome
Bucholie	ruined castle	Bartholomew
Duncansbay Head	a promontory	Groome
Freswick	village with half-yearly fairs	Bartholomew
Gills	village	Bartholomew
Houna or Huna	a hamlet	Groome
John o' Groat's House	a quondam octagonal domicile	Groome
Men of Mey	dangerous reefs	Bartholomew
Mey	a hamlet	Groome
Mey	hamlet	Bartholomew
Stroma	island	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 Canisbay 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
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
Gills	0	2
Huna	0	1
John O Groats	0	2
Stroma	0	1
Mey	0	2
Freswick	0	1
Duncansby	0	2
Bucholly	0	2
Rattar	0	2
Pentland Firth	0	2
Keiss	0	2
Dunnet	0	2
Wester	0	1
Swona	0	2
Skerries	0	2
Bower	0	2
Killimster	0	2
Castletown	0	2
Olrig	0	2
Ackergill	0	2