Scone, Perthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Scone parish Bartholomew
Scone a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Annaty a burn Groome
Bonhard a farm Groome
Bonhard seat and farm Bartholomew
Grassy Walls vestiges of Roman camp Bartholomew
Grassy Walls a Roman camp Groome
Stormontfield village 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 Scone 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.
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth 7
Thomas Pennant July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 3
William Camden Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall 2
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 2
James Boswell September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 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
Bridgend 0 2
Kinnoull 1 2
Perth 42 3
Bertha 1 2
St Martins 0 2
Balbeggie 0 2
Kinfauns 0 2
Balthayock 0 2
Cairnbeddie 0 2
Redgorton 0 2
Guildtown 0 2
Luncarty 3 2
Rhynd 0 2
Moncreiffe 1 2
Huntingtower 1 2
Inchyra 0 2
Glencarse 0 2
Almondbank 0 2
Wolfhill 0 2
Stanley 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
SCONE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
SCOON Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
John Wesley The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).

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.