Dunkeld, Perthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dunkeld market town with railway station Bartholomew
Dunkeld a small but very interesting town Groome
Dunkeld and Dowally united parish Bartholomew
Dunkeld and Dowally a Strathtay united parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kindallachan village Bartholomew
Kindallachan a village Groome
Ordie loch Bartholomew
Ordie, Loch a lake 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 Dunkeld 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 July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 2
William Camden Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall 1
William Camden Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 1
Thomas Pennant August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll 1
Thomas Pennant September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 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
Little Dunkeld 0 2
Birnam 1 2
Inver 1 2
Kincairney 0 2
Dalguise 0 2
Dowally 0 2
Caputh 0 2
Stormont 1 1
Forneth 0 2
Bankfoot 0 3
Clunie 3 2
Lethendy 0 1
Airntully 0 3
Logierait 0 2
Kinloch 0 3
Stanley 0 2
Kinclaven 0 2
Meikleour 0 2
Moneydie 0 2
Cargill 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
DUN EALDEN F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
DUNKEL Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
DUNKELD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
DUNKELD AND DOWALLY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
DUNKELDEN William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).

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.