Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cromarty capital of county, parliamentary burgh and seaport, and parish Bartholomew
Cromarty the county town and a parish of Cromartyshire. A seaport and parliamentary burgh Groome
Cromarty Firth arm of sea Bartholomew
Cromarty Firth the estuary of the river Conan Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Navity seat Bartholomew
Peddieston place with school 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 Cromarty 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: North of the Antonine Wall 3
Daniel Defoe Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands 3
Thomas Pennant August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle 3
Thomas Pennant Appendix III: The Life of James Crichton of Clunie 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
Cromartyshire 0 2
Sutors of Cromarty 1 1
Nigg 0 2
Tarbat House 1 2
Kilmuir Easter 0 2
Milton 0 2
Jemimaville 0 2
Kildary 0 2
Balnagown 3 2
Invergordon 1 2
Logie Easter 0 1
Rosemarkie 1 2
Fort George 8 2
Fearn 0 2
Ardersier 4 4
Chanonry 1 2
Resolis 0 3
Fortrose 0 2
Cullicudden 0 2
Alness 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CROMARTIE Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
CROMARTY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
CROMARTY FIRTH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
CROMER William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
PORTUS SALUTIS 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.