Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Auchtermuchty	a town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Daneshalt or Dunshelt	a village	Groome
Dunshalt	village	Bartholomew
Jamaica	hamlet	Bartholomew
Myres Castle	a mansion	Groome
Myres Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Pleasance	a village	Groome
Pleasance	hamlet	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 Auchtermuchty 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.
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	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
Dunshelt	0	3
Strathmiglo	1	2
Falkland	5	2
Collessie	0	2
Abdie	0	2
Lindores	0	2
Gateside	0	3
Newburgh	0	2
Abernethy	1	2
Ladybank	0	2
Monimail	0	2
Dunbog	0	2
Kettle	0	2
St Madoes	0	2
Arngask	0	2
Pitlessie	0	1
Leslie	9	2
Inchyra	0	2
Dron	0	2
Glencarse	0	2