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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 "SKIPNESS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Argyllshire	Argyll	Skipness, Ardpatrick, Ardmeanach, Orinaig, Benmore, Barcaldine, Dunach, Gallanach, Fasnacloich, Pennygowan, Carskey, Oatfield, Hafton, Glenstriven, Knockdow, Milton, Ardnave, Ardlussa, Daill, Killundine	Groome
  Claonaig	Argyll	Claonaig , rivulet, Kintyre, Argyllshire, flowing 2½ miles SE. to Kilbrannan Sound, 2¾ miles SW. of Skipness Point.	Bartholomew
  Claonaig	Argyll	eastward, past Skipness church, to Kilbrannan Sound, 2¾ miles WSW of Skipness Point. It abounds in trout and seatrout.	Groome
  COTHAM	Lincolnshire	nunnery was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by Allan Munceaux; and given, at the dissolution, to the Skip-withs.	Imperial
  Duffield, North	Yorkshire	Skip with par., East-Riding Yorkshire, on river Derwent, 5½ miles NE. of Selby, 3417 ac., pop. 376; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Kilcalmonell and Kilberry	Argyll	Skipness, S by Killean and Kilchenzie, and W by the Atlantic Ocean. Its greatest length, from NE to SW, is 14 miles	Groome
  Kintyre	Argyll	Skipness; and its court meets at Campbeltown on the last Wednesday of March, April, June September, and November. Pop. (1871) 19, 201, (1881) 19, 421, of whom	Groome
  MICHAEL-ON-WYRE (ST.)	Lancashire	skip-with-Sowerby, the Lancaster township of Myerscough, and the Garstang township of Bilsborrow. Acres, 1 5,965. Pop., 3,359. Houses	Imperial
  Saddell	Argyll	Skipness par., Argyllshire, on E. side of Kintyre, pop. 080; the church is at Carradale; Saddell Abbey , ruin, and Saddell	Bartholomew
  Saddell and Skipness	Argyll	Skipness; and four public schools-Carradale, Saddell, Skipness, and Sperasaig-with respective accommodation for 63, 48, 60, and 30 children	Groome
  Saddell and Skipness	Argyll	Saddell and Skipness , par., Argyllshire, on E. side of Kintyre, 40,872 ac., pop. 1103.	Bartholomew
  SKIP-BRIDGE	Yorkshire	SKIP-BRIDGE , a hamlet in Monkton-Moor parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 7½ miles NW of York.	Imperial
  Skipness	Argyll	Skipness stands 5½ furlongs E by N of the village and 3 WNW of low Skipness Point, which divides	Groome
  Skipness	Argyll	Skipness , quoad sacra par. and fishing vil., Saddell and Skipness par., Argyllshire, on E. side of Kintyre - quoad sacra par., pop. 470; vil., on Skipness	Bartholomew
  Sperasaig	Argyll	Sperasaig , school, Saddell and Skipness par., Argyll.	Bartholomew
  Tarbert	Argyll	Skipness par., Argyllshire - quoad sacra par., pop. 2017; vil., at head of East Loch Tarbert (off Loch Fyne), 13½ miles	Bartholomew
  Torrisdale Castle	Argyll	mansion in Saddell and Skipness parish, Argyllshire, near the E shore of Kintyre, and 1¼ mile SSW of Carradale.	Groome
  Torrisdale Castle	Argyll	Torrisdale Castle , seat, Saddell and Skipness par., Argyllshire, at E. side of Kintyre, 1½ mile SW. of Carradale.	Bartholomew

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