Turriff, Aberdeenshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Turriff police burgh Bartholomew
Turriff a town and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ardmiddle hill and seat Bartholomew
Ardmiddle a hill and a mansion Groome
Balquholly ancient baronial castle Bartholomew
Balquholly an ancient baronial castle Groome
Dalgety or Delgaty an estate, with a mansion Groome
Dalgety, or Delgaty seat Bartholomew
Darra a hill Groome
Fintray school Bartholomew
Gask House old mansion (now a farmhouse) Bartholomew
Gask House an old mansion Groome
Hatton Castle modern mansion Bartholomew
Hatton Castle a square castellated mansion Groome
Laithers House seat Bartholomew
Laithers House a modern mansion Groome
Muiresk a mansion Groome
Muiresk House seat Bartholomew
Plaidy railway station Bartholomew
Towie Barclay old castle Bartholomew
Towie-Barclay an old castle Groome

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
Forglen 0 2
Craigston 2 2
King Edward 3 2
Cuminestown 0 3
Monquhitter 0 2
Auchterless 0 2
Deveron 5 2
Inverkeithny 0 2
Newbyth 0 2
Aberchirder 0 2
Alvah 0 2
Byth 0 2
Cairnbanno 0 2
Forgue 0 2
Marnoch 0 2
Fyvie 0 2
Woodhead 0 1
Duff House 1 2
Gamrie 0 1
Banff 18 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
TURRIFF 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.