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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "JOHN O GROATS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Caithness	Caithness	John G. T. Sinclair, Bart.; Scrabster, the ruined residence of the quondam bishops of Caithness; Girnigoe and Sinclair, erected by the thanes of Caithness; Ackergill, built by the Keiths, Earls Marischal; Dunbeath and Brims, still habitable; and Freswick, Keiss, Forss, Berriedale, Downreay, Brawl, and Durlet, all in ruins. Some substructions on a small green knoll, 1½ mile W of Duncansby Head, are vestiges of John o' Groat	Groome
  Canisbay	Caithness	John o' Groat's House, at which last a good hotel was opened in 1876. Traces of an ancient watch	Groome
  DONQUIN, or DUNQUIN	Kerry	John O'Groat's." Dunmore Head is in N. Lat. 52" 8' 30" and in W. Lon. 10" 27' 30" : it lies	Lewis:Ireland
  Duncansbay Head	Caithness	John o' Groat's House, and 18½ miles N by E of Wick. Rising almost sheer from the sea to a height	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	John o' Groat's House, and 337 from London. Its distance, by road, is 35½ miles from Stirling, 42 from	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	John o' Groat's House is 197 miles, and from London 348. It is NW by N of London and Carlisle	Groome
  John o' Groat's House	Caithness	o' Groat's House, a quondam octagonal domicile in Canisbay parish, NE Caithness, on the flat downy shore of the Pentland Firth, 1¾ mile W of Duncansbay Head and 18 miles N of Wick. Its legend is told as follows:-During the reign of James IV., a Lowlander of the name of Groat-or, according to some versions, a Dutchman of the name of John	Groome
  John o'Groat's House	Caithness	o'Groat's House , a house of octagonal shape formerly existing in Canisbay par., NE. Caithness, on the Pentland Firth, 1½ mile W. of Duncansbay Head; its site is outlined on a mound, near which is an inn with an octagonal tower commanding a magnificent view over the sea to the Orkneys. According to the legend, the original house was built octagonal in order to settle a question of precedence in the Groat family. "John	Bartholomew
  Kirkmaiden	Wigtownshire	John o' Groat's House, in Burns's phrase, ` Frae Maiden Kirk to John o' Groat's,' to indicate the extremities	Groome
  Kirkwall	Orkney	John o' Groat's), 49 NE of Thurso, 51 N of Wick, and by steamer 135 from Aberdeen, 225 from	Groome
  Perth	Perthshire	groat. Their conscience so moved them that they suffered those hypocrites take away what they could of that which was in -their places. The Prior of Charterhouse was permitted to take away with him even so much gold and silver as he was well able to carry. So was men's consciences before beaten with the Word that they had no respect to their own particular profit, but only to abolish idolatry, the places and monuments thereof, in which they were so busy and so laborious that within two days these three great places, monuments of idolatry	Groome
  Wick	Caithness	John o' Groat's House, and 14¾ NNE of Lybster. By sea it is about 50 miles S of Kirkwall	Groome

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