Lochbroom, Ross and Cromarty : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Lochbroom coastal parish Bartholomew
Lochbroom a coast parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Inverbroom seat Bartholomew
Inverpolly Lodge Bartholomew
Isle Martin island Bartholomew
Kalloch (An Teallach) Bartholomew
Leckmelm Deer Forest Bartholomew
Little Loch Broom sea-loch Bartholomew
Loch Baddagyle loch Bartholomew
Loch Enard or Enard Bay sea-loch Bartholomew
Loch-na-Sheallag loch Bartholomew
Measach, Falls of falls Bartholomew
Ristal island Bartholomew
Scoraig school Bartholomew
Tanera island Bartholomew
Teallach mountain Bartholomew
Toll-an-Lochain small loch Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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
Dundonnell 0 2
Ullapool 0 2
Gruinard 0 2
Coigach 1 2
Laide 0 1
Summer Isles 0 2
Aultbea 0 2
Eilean Maree 0 3
Poolewe 0 2
Kinlochewe 0 2
Achnasheen 0 2
Lochluichart 0 2
Lochinver 0 1
Assynt 1 2
Gairloch 0 2
Kiltearn 0 2
Fodderty 0 2
Creich 3 2
Garve 0 2
Highland 0 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LOCHBROOM John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

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