Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Watten	a parish, containing a hamlet	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achavrea	a hamlet	Groome
Achavrea	hamlet	Bartholomew
Achay	hamlet	Bartholomew
Achay	a hamlet	Groome
Achingale	hamlet	Bartholomew
Achingale	a hamlet	Groome
Achmerrel	a place	Groome
Backlass	a hill	Groome
Backlass	hill	Bartholomew
Dunn	a hamlet, with an inn	Groome
Gersa	school	Bartholomew
Halsary	district	Bartholomew
Houstry	village	Bartholomew
Lanergill	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 Watten 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 V: Of Caithness, Strathnavern, and Sutherland	5

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
Dunn	0	2
Spittal	0	1
Killimster	0	2
Halsary	0	1
Bower	0	2
Altimarlach	0	2
Wester	0	1
Ackergill	0	2
Harpsdale	0	1
Westerdale	0	2
Braal	0	2
Rangag	0	1
Halkirk	0	2
Keiss	0	2
Dirlot	0	2
Wick	1	3
Pulteneytown	0	1
Thrumster	0	2
Skinnet	0	1
Hempriggs	0	2