Altyre, Moray : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Haugh of Urr village Bartholomew
Haugh of Urr a village Groome
Old Bridge of Urr hamlet Bartholomew
Urr a Kirkcudbrightshire parish Groome
Urr parish Bartholomew
Urr, Haugh of village Bartholomew
Urr, Old Bridge of hamlet Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Hardgate a small village, with a public school Groome
Hardgate village Bartholomew
Milton hamlet with school Bartholomew
Milton a village Groome
Spottes a mansion Groome
Spottes seat 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
Springholm 0 2
Kirkpatrick Durham 0 2
Dalbeattie 0 2
Castle Douglas 0 2
Milton 0 2
Kirkgunzeon 0 2
Buittle 0 2
Crocketford 0 2
Crossmichael 0 2
Gelston 0 2
Kelton 0 2
Corsock 0 2
Lochrutton 0 2
Parton 0 2
Kirkpatrick Irongay 0 3
Colvend 0 2
Balmaghie 0 2
Auchencairn 0 2
Troqueer 0 2
New Abbey 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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.