Swansea, Glamorgan : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Crieff market town and parish with railway station Bartholomew
Crieff a town and a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Achalhanzie a detached part of Crieff parish Groome
Almond Glen, or Sma' Glen Bartholomew
Broich an estate, with a mansion Groome
Callum's Hill wooded eminence Bartholomew
Clach-na-Ossian a large stone Groome
Clach-na-Ossian large stone Bartholomew
Corriemuchloch hamlet Bartholomew
Corriemuchloch a hamlet Groome
Dunmore a hill Groome
Fern-Tower a mansion Groome
Glenalmond either all, or much, or a small part of the vale of the river Almond Groome
Highlandman a station Groome
Inchbrakie seat Bartholomew
Inchbrakie a mansion Groome
Knock of Crieff hill Bartholomew
Shaggie Burn a stream Groome
Small (or Sma') Glen 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 Crieff 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.

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
Monzievaird 0 2
Strathearn 5 2
Monzie 0 3
Drummond Castle 3 2
Strowan 0 2
Muthill 0 2
Abercairny 0 1
Fowlis Wester 0 2
St Davids 0 3
Madderty 0 2
Kinkell 0 2
Comrie 1 3
Trinity Gask 0 2
Auchterarder 0 2
Braco 0 1
Ardoch 0 3
Aberuthven 0 2
Blackford 0 2
Findo Gask 0 3
Amulree 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CRIEF Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
CRIEFF John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
CRUBHA 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.