Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cromarty	the county town and a parish of Cromartyshire. A seaport and parliamentary burgh	Groome
Cromarty Firth	the estuary of the river Conan	Groome
Cromarty Firth	arm of sea	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Navity	seat	Bartholomew
Peddieston	place with 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 Cromarty 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.
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	3
Thomas Pennant	August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle	3
Thomas Pennant	Appendix III: The Life of James Crichton of Clunie	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
Cromartyshire	0	2
Sutors of Cromarty	0	1
Nigg	0	2
Tarbat House	0	2
Kilmuir Easter	0	2
Milton	0	2
Jemimaville	0	2
Kildary	0	2
Balnagown	0	2
Invergordon	0	2
Logie Easter	0	1
Rosemarkie	0	2
Fort George	0	2
Fearn	0	2
Ardersier	0	4
Chanonry	0	2
Resolis	0	3
Fortrose	0	2
Cullicudden	0	2
Alness	0	2