Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Alves	parish, village, and railway station	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Coltfield	a hamlet	Groome
Crook of Alves	hamlet	Bartholomew
Crook of Alves	a hamlet	Groome
Milton Brodie	seat	Bartholomew
Milton-Brodie	a quadrangular mansion	Groome
Moray's Cairn	a quondam large stone tumulus	Groome
Newton House	a mansion	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 Alves 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	2

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
Pluscarden	0	2
Kinloss	5	2
Burghead	0	2
Hopeman	0	2
Duffus	0	2
Elgin	19	3
Lossie	0	2
Rafford	0	2
Findhorn	0	2
Dallas	0	2
Covesea	0	2
Forres	11	3
Spynie	0	2
Drainie	0	2
Birnie	0	2
Kinneddar	0	1
Altyre	0	2
Stotfield	0	1
Culbin	0	2
Lossiemouth	0	2