New Longton, Lancashire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Benblath a mountain summit Groome
Breakish a hamlet Groome
Breakish hamlet Bartholomew
Broadford village Bartholomew
Broadford a bay Groome
Castle-Maoil a ruined, strong, square fortalice Groome
Dunan hamlet Bartholomew
Elgoll hamlet Bartholomew
Heast hamlet Bartholomew
Kilbride place Bartholomew
Kilchrist loch Bartholomew
Kilmarie Lodge Bartholomew
Kyleakin village Bartholomew
Kyle-Akin a village Groome
Marsco mountain Bartholomew
Pabba an islet Groome
Pabbay island Bartholomew
Scalpay an island Groome
Slapin a sea-loch Groome
Torrin hamlet with public school 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
Broadford 0 2
Scalpay 1 2
Dunscaith 0 2
Sleat 11 4
Isle Ornsay 0 2
Coruisk 0 2
Kyleakin 0 2
Soay 0 2
Armadale 11 2
Ardavasar 0 2
Balmacarra 0 2
Glenelg 10 2
Bernera Barracks 1 1
Raasay 26 2
Plockton 0 2
Aird 0 2
Applecross 1 2
Skye 141 2
Portree 16 2
Carbost 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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.