Fort George, Inverness Shire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Fort George fortress and railway station Bartholomew
George, Fort fort 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 Fort George 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.
Samuel Johnson Elgin, Forres and Fort George 2
Thomas Pennant August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll 2
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1
Thomas Pennant August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle 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
Chanonry 1 2
Rosemarkie 1 2
Ardersier 4 4
Fortrose 0 2
Avoch 0 2
Petty 2 2
Croy 0 2
Dalcross 1 2
Kilravock 1 2
Jemimaville 0 2
Cromartyshire 0 2
Cawdor 9 2
Black Isle 0 2
Cromarty 10 4
Resolis 0 3
Culloden 6 2
Knockbain 0 2
Munlochy 0 2
Nairn 18 5
Sutors of Cromarty 1 1

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
FORT GEORGE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
GEORGE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
GEORGE FORT John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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.