Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Portsoy	a seaport and burgh of barony	Groome

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 Portsoy 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	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	2

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
Boyne	0	2
Durn	0	2
Glassaugh	0	2
Fordyce	0	2
Findlater	0	2
Birkenbog	0	1
Boyndie	0	2
Whitehills	0	2
Cullen	3	3
Cornhill	0	2
Deskford	0	3
Ordiquhill	0	2
Banff	10	2
Portknockie	0	3
Duff House	0	2
Alvah	0	2
Macduff	0	2
Findochty	0	2
Aberchirder	0	2
Rathven	0	2