Glenmuick, Aberdeenshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Glenmuick, Tullich, and Glengairn united parish Bartholomew
Glenmuick, Tullich, and Glengairn a Deeside parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ballater a village Groome
Ballater village with railway station Bartholomew
Ballatrich or Ballaterach a farm-house Groome
Birkhall a mansion Groome
Brackley a castle, now nearly demolished Groome
Bridge-of-Gairn Bartholomew
Cannor, or Kinord loch Bartholomew
Craigdhuloch a stupendous cliff Groome
Culblean hill range Bartholomew
Dhu or Dubh Loch a wild mountain lake Groome
Gairn a small river Groome
Knock Castle a ruin Groome
Monaltrie House a commodious mansion Groome
Muick a stream Groome
Pannanich Wells an inland watering-place Groome
Vat a cave and a burn Groome

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 Glenmuick 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.
Thomas Pennant August 1-6: Loch Tay to Deeside 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray 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
Ballater 3 2
Tullich 5 1
Pannanich 1 3
Glengairn 1 2
Culblean 3 2
Crathie 0 3
Balmoral 0 2
Tanner 2 3
Morven 1 2
Dinnet 0 2
Lochnagar 2 2
Logie Coldstone 0 1
Lochlee 0 3
Cromar 4 1
Tarland 0 2
Corgarff 0 2
Invercauld 7 2
Coull 0 2
Aboyne 3 4
Strathdon 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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.