Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Keith-Inch	parlimentary and police burgh, sea town and parish	Bartholomew
Peterhead	a parish containing a town	Groome
Peterhead	a parliamentary burgh, a head-port, and the chief town	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Berryhill	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Buchanhaven	fishing village	Bartholomew
Buchanhaven	a fishing village	Groome
Buchan Ness	a low but rocky peninsula	Groome
Burnhaven	a fishing village	Groome
Burnhaven	fishing village	Bartholomew
Cairntrodlie	a village	Groome
Cairntrodlie	village	Bartholomew
Dundonnie	a small green islet	Groome
Ellishill	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Ellishill	seat	Bartholomew
Invernettie Bay		Bartholomew
Invernettie or Brickwork Bay	a bay	Groome
New Seat	railway station	Bartholomew
Ravenscraig	ruined castle	Bartholomew
Salthouse Head	headland	Bartholomew
Sandford Bay		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 Peterhead 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	3
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	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 Hist. Gazetteer
Burnhaven	0	2
Inverugie	0	2
Boddam	0	2
Buchan Ness	0	2
Blackhill	0	2
St Fergus	0	2
Bullers of Buchan	0	4
Longside	0	2
Port Errol	0	3
Cruden	0	2
Hatton	0	2
Rattray	0	2
Crimond	0	2
Mintlaw	0	2
Ardallie	0	2
Lonmay	0	2
Old Deer	0	3
Stuartfield	0	3
Cairness	0	2
Mormond	0	2