A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Tongue. You may be able to find further references to Tongue in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Tongue | a village and a coast parish | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Tongue.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Ben Hutig | a mountain | Groome |
Ben Hutig, or Thutaig | hill | Bartholomew |
Ben Loyal or Ben Laoghal | a mountain | Groome |
Borgie | river | Bartholomew |
Borgie | a river | Groome |
Craggie | loch | Bartholomew |
Craggie or Creagach | a loch | Groome |
Cullisaid | small loch | Bartholomew |
Cullisaid or Cuil na Sith | a loch | Groome |
Derry or Loch an Dithreibh | a lake | Groome |
Ellan-na-Coomb or Ellan-na-Naoimh | a small island | Groome |
Ellan-nan-Ron | an inhabited island | Groome |
Kinloch Lodge | Bartholomew | |
Kyle of Tongue | narrow sea-loch | Bartholomew |
Melness | a hamlet | Groome |
Melness | village | Bartholomew |
Rabbit Islands | 3 islands | Bartholomew |
Rabbit Islands | three islets | Groome |
Roan | island | Bartholomew |
Skerray | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Talmine | hamlet | Bartholomew |
Varrich Castle | ruin | Bartholomew |
Whiten Head | a towering white headland | Groome |
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 Tongue 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. |
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Thomas Pennant | Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland | 4 |
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 |
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Castle Varrich | 0 | 2 |
Rabbit Islands | 0 | 2 |
Skerray | 0 | 1 |
Eilean Nan Ron | 0 | 2 |
Coomb Island | 0 | 2 |
Naver | 0 | 3 |
Whiten Head | 0 | 2 |
Borve | 0 | 1 |
Eriboll | 0 | 3 |
Kirtomy | 0 | 1 |
Farr | 0 | 2 |
Armadale | 0 | 1 |
Durness | 0 | 3 |
Mudale | 0 | 2 |
Altnaharra | 0 | 2 |
Strathy | 0 | 1 |
Halladale | 0 | 2 |
Portskerra | 0 | 1 |
Melvich | 0 | 2 |
Dalhalvaig | 0 | 1 |