Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Rothesay	a post and market town, sea-port, and royal burgh	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bogany	headland	Bartholomew
Bogany	a headland	Groome
Kilmorie	the Jamiesons' ancient castle	Groome
Kilmorie Castle	ruin	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 Rothesay 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: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	1
George Head	Up the West Highland Coast	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
Bute	0	2
Ascog	0	2
Port Bannatyne	0	3
North Bute	0	2
Mountstuart	0	2
Inellan	0	2
Kingarth	0	2
Kilchattan	0	2
Ardlamont	0	4
Skelmorlie	0	2
Cumbrae	0	3
Millport	0	2
Largs	1	2
Inverchaolain	0	2
Inverkip	0	2
Little Cumbrae	0	2
Ardgowan	0	2
Dunoon	0	3
Fairlie	0	2
Dunrod	0	2