A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Farr. You may be able to find further references to Farr in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Farr | a hamlet and a parish | Groome |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Farr.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Altnaharrow | a hamlet | Groome | Armadale | a fishing village, a bay, and a burn | Groome | Balligill | small loch | Bartholomew | Balligill | a loch | Groome | Benclibrick or Beinn Cleith-bric | a mountain | Groome | Benstomino or Beinn's Tomaine | a mountain | Groome | Benvaddu | a mountain | Groome | Ben Vaddu | mountain | Bartholomew | Borve | a quondam ancient tower | Groome | Coire Nam Meann | a loch | Groome | Coire na Sith | a loch | Groome | Corr, A-Choire, or Coir' an Fhearna | a loch | Groome | Kirtomy | hamlet | Bartholomew | Mudale | rivulet | Bartholomew | Naver | river | Bartholomew | Naver | a lake and a river | Groome | Strath Naver | valley | Bartholomew |
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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 Farr 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 | Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland | 4 |
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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 Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Naver | 0 | 3 |
| Kirtomy | 0 | 1 |
| Tongue | 0 | 2 |
| Borve | 0 | 1 |
| Dalhalvaig | 0 | 1 |
| Halladale | 0 | 2 |
| Castle Varrich | 0 | 2 |
| Skerray | 0 | 1 |
| Armadale | 0 | 1 |
| Kinbrace | 0 | 1 |
| Coomb Island | 0 | 2 |
| Altnaharra | 0 | 2 |
| Rabbit Islands | 0 | 2 |
| Eilean Nan Ron | 0 | 2 |
| Strathy | 0 | 1 |
| Mudale | 0 | 2 |
| Melvich | 0 | 2 |
| Portskerra | 0 | 1 |
| Sandside | 0 | 1 |
| Reay | 0 | 1 |