Edinkillie, Moray : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Edenkillie parish Bartholomew
Edinkillie parish and hamlet Bartholomew
Edinkillie a hamlet and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Conicavel village Bartholomew
Divie a rivulet Groome
Dorbock a picturesque rivulet Groome
Duniphail or Dunphail an estate Groome
Halfdavoch school Bartholomew
Half-Davoch a place with a public school Groome
Knock of Braemory hill Bartholomew
Logie a 17th century baronial mansion Groome
Logie seat Bartholomew
Relugas seat Bartholomew
Relugas a mansion Groome
Sluie place 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 Edinkillie 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 Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray 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 Historical Gazetteer
Dunphail 0 2
Relugas 1 2
Ardclach 0 2
Altyre 0 2
Darnaway 2 2
Lethen 1 2
Rafford 0 2
Dulsie 0 2
Lochindorb 1 3
Dallas 0 2
Brodie 0 2
Dyke 1 2
Forres 21 3
Auldearn 2 2
Rait 1 1
Lochloy 0 1
Geddes 0 1
Kinloss 8 2
Advie 0 2
Culbin 1 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Edinkillie. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
EDENKEELY Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
EDENKILLIE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
EDINKILLIE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.