Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Forres	a parish	Groome
Forres	a town, with the privileges of a royal burgh	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hell's Hole Valley	small glen	Bartholomew
Invererne House	seat	Bartholomew
Sanquhar House	seat	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 Forres 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 II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	5
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	4
James Boswell	October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray	3
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	2
Samuel Johnson	Elgin, Forres and Fort George	2
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	1
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	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 Hist. Gazetteer
Rafford	0	2
Kinloss	5	2
Altyre	0	2
Dyke	0	2
Culbin	0	2
Findhorn	0	2
Brodie	0	2
Darnaway	0	2
Alves	0	2
Dallas	0	2
Lochloy	0	1
Pluscarden	0	2
Dunphail	0	2
Relugas	0	2
Lethen	0	2
Auldearn	0	2
Burghead	0	2
Edinkillie	0	3
Hopeman	0	2
Nairn	9	5