Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wick	a large coast parish containing a royal burgh of the same name, and also a river	Groome
Wick	a royal burgh, seaport, seat of trade, and the county town of Caithness	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achern	a hamlet	Groome
Achern	hamlet	Bartholomew
Ackergill Tower	a mansion	Groome
Altimarlach	a burn	Groome
Altimarlach	rivulet	Bartholomew
Auld Wick Castle	old fort	Bartholomew
Auld Wick Castle	an old baronial fortalice	Groome
Bankhead	a village	Groome
Bilbster	an estate	Groome
Broadhaven	a small bay and a fishing village	Groome
Broadhaven	fishing village and bay	Bartholomew
Castles Girnigoe and Sinclair	two neighbouring ruined fortalices	Groome
Harland, Hill of		Bartholomew
Hauster	a burn	Groome
Hauster (or Thrumster) Burn		Bartholomew
Hempriggs	village	Bartholomew
Hempriggs	an old mansion	Groome
Howe	a hamlet	Groome
Janetstown	a village	Groome
Janetstown	village	Bartholomew
Keiss	fishing village	Bartholomew
Kilminster	a hamlet	Groome
Kilminster	hamlet	Bartholomew
Newton	a village	Groome
Newton	village	Bartholomew
Nybster	coastal hamlet	Bartholomew
Nybster	a coast village	Groome
Papigoe	hamlet	Bartholomew
Papigoe	a coast village	Groome
Pulteney	part of town	Bartholomew
Reiss	a village	Groome
Reiss	village	Bartholomew
Rosebank	seat	Bartholomew
Sarclet	a small fishing village	Groome
Sarclet	fishing village	Bartholomew
Staxigoe	fishing village	Bartholomew
Staxigoe	a fishing village	Groome
Stirkoke	seat	Bartholomew
Stirkoke House	a mansion	Groome
Tannach	village	Bartholomew
Tannach	a village	Groome
Thrumster	hamlet with school	Bartholomew
Thrumster House	a mansion	Groome
Ulbster	coastal hamlet	Bartholomew
Ulbster	a post office	Groome
West Banks	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 Wick 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	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	3
Thomas Pennant	Appendix V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	2
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	2
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	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
Pulteneytown	0	1
Auld Wick	0	2
Staxigoe	0	2
Hempriggs	0	2
Altimarlach	0	2
Ackergill	0	2
Sinclair	0	3
Noss	0	1
Thrumster	0	2
Sarclet	0	2
Killimster	0	2
Wester	0	1
Ulbster	0	2
Whaligoe	0	1
Keiss	0	2
Bruan	0	2
Watten	0	2
Mid Clyth	0	2
Bucholly	0	2
Freswick	0	1