Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Balhaddie	hamlet	Bartholomew
Cromlix	a barony	Groome
Cromlix	barony	Bartholomew
Kilbryde Castle	a fine old castle	Groome
Kilbryde Castle	seat	Bartholomew
Kinbuck	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Kippendavie	seat	Bartholomew
Kippenross	a mansion, with beautiful grounds	Groome
Kippenross	seat	Bartholomew
Sheriffmuir	a battlefield	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 Dunblane 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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	4
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	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
Lecropt	0	2
Bridge of Allan	0	5
Sheriffmuir	0	2
Logie	0	1
Doune	0	2
Causewayhead	0	2
Blair Drummond	0	2
Blairlogie	0	2
Deanston	0	2
Raploch	0	1
Kincardine	2	2
Cambuskenneth	0	4
Stirling	47	3
Menstrie	0	2
Forth	0	2
Cambusbarron	0	2
Kilmadock	0	2
Ardoch	0	3
Braco	0	1
St Ninians	0	3