Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Thurso	a parish, containing a town of the same name, and also a river	Groome
Thurso	river	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brimsness	a small headland	Groome
Brims Ness	headland	Bartholomew
Clett	rocky islet	Bartholomew
Clett	a rocky islet	Groome
Forss	seat	Bartholomew
Harold's Tower	a monumental structure	Groome
Holburn Head	a magnificent headland	Groome
Janetstown	village	Bartholomew
Scrabster	seaport village	Bartholomew
Spear Head	headland	Bartholomew
Weydale	hamlet	Bartholomew
Weydale	a place, with a post office and a public school	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 Thurso 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	15
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	2

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
Scrabster	0	1
Murkle	0	2
Skinnet	0	1
Olrig	0	2
Westfield	0	1
Castletown	0	2
Brims	0	2
Braal	0	2
Calder	0	2
Halkirk	0	2
Dunnet	0	2
Shebster	0	1
Harpsdale	0	1
Dounreay	0	1
Bower	0	2
Rattar	0	2
Shurrery	0	1
Dunn	0	2
Spittal	0	1
Reay	0	1