Kinloss, Moray : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Kinloss coastal parish and village with railway station Bartholomew
Kinloss a small parish with a hamlet Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Findhorn a seaport village Groome
Findhorn (or Invererne) village with harbour Bartholomew
Grange Hall seat Bartholomew
Grange Hall a modern mansion Groome
Sea Park a good modern mansion Groome
Sea Park seat 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 Kinloss 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.
William Camden Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall 2
Thomas Pennant Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands 1
Thomas Pennant Tyringham to Woburn 1
Thomas Pennant Ampthill to Luton 1
Thomas Pennant August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle 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
Findhorn 6 2
Forres 21 3
Rafford 0 2
Culbin 1 2
Alves 2 2
Altyre 0 2
Dyke 1 2
Burghead 2 2
Pluscarden 4 2
Brodie 0 2
Darnaway 2 2
Dallas 0 2
Hopeman 0 2
Duffus 4 2
Lossie 6 2
Lochloy 0 1
Dunphail 0 2
Relugas 1 2
Covesea 0 2
Elgin 54 3

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
KILL FLOS William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
KINLOSS John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
KINLOSSE 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.