Dunnottar, Kincardineshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Dunnottar coastal town and parish Bartholomew
Dunnottar a coast parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auquhirie an estate, with a mansion Groome
Barras a decayed old mansion Groome
Crawton fishing village Bartholomew
Dunnottar Castle a ruined fortress Groome
Forthie Water a rivulet Groome
Fowlsheugh cliff range 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 Dunnottar 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: South of the Antonine Wall 1
William Camden Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands 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
Fetteresso 0 2
Stonehaven 3 2
Cowie 0 2
Rickarton 0 2
Muchalls 0 2
Cookney 0 2
Drumlithie 0 2
Kinneff 0 2
Glenbervie 0 2
Arbuthnott 0 2
Bervie 1 5
Portlethen 0 2
Monboddo 6 2
Maryculter 0 2
Durris 0 2
Findon 0 3
Gourdon 0 2
Auchinblae 0 2
Dee 10 4
Fordoun 1 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
DUNFOITHER F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
DUNNOTER Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
DUNNOTTAR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
DUNNOTYR William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
DUN OITIR F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
DUNOTYR 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.