Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Nairn	a river	Groome
Nairn	a parish	Groome
Nairn	the county town of Nairnshire, and a royal and police burgh	Groome
Nairn	river	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balblair	place	Bartholomew
Balblair	a spot	Groome
Burnside	a recent neat hamlet	Groome
Burnside	hamlet	Bartholomew
Firhall	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Geddes House	a mansion	Groome
Househill	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Howford	a village	Groome
Ivybank	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Moss-Side	a village	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 Nairn 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	3
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	2
Samuel Johnson	Elgin, Forres and Fort George	2
John Wesley	1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland	2
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	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
Auldearn	0	2
Geddes	0	1
Rait	0	1
Lochloy	0	1
Lethen	0	2
Cawdor	2	2
Ardersier	0	4
Brodie	0	2
Kilravock	0	2
Dyke	0	2
Darnaway	0	2
Croy	0	2
Fort George	0	2
Relugas	0	2
Ardclach	0	2
Sutors of Cromarty	0	1
Dalcross	0	2
Culbin	0	2
Petty	0	2
Cromartyshire	0	2