Liff, Perthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Liff a village and a parish Groome
Liff, Benvie, and Invergowrie parish and village with railway station Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Backmuir village Bartholomew
Backmuir a village Groome
Balruddery an estate, with a handsome modern mansion Groome
Birkhill Feus village Bartholomew
Birkhill Feus a village Groome
Bullionfield seat of extensive paper-mills Bartholomew
Bullionfield an extensive paper-work establishment Groome
Camperdown a mansion and a station Groome
Camperdown seat Bartholomew
Dargie a village Groome
Denhead and Denmill a conjoint village, with a spinning-mill Groome
Five Mile House a hamlet Groome
Gray House a mansion Groome
Muirhead of Liff a village 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
Fowlis Easter 0 1
Benvie 0 2
Camperdown 0 2
Mylnefield Feus 0 2
Invergowrie 0 2
Longforgan 0 2
Kingoodie 0 2
Lochee 0 2
Kirkton of Strathmartine 0 1
Auchterhouse 0 2
Baldovan 0 2
Lundie 0 1
Baledgarno 0 2
Dudhope 0 1
Inchture 0 2
Hilltown 0 1
Dundee 19 6
Abernyte 0 2
Claverhouse 0 2
Mains 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
LIFF F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
LIFF BENVIE AND INVERGOWRIE 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.