Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Brechin	a royal and parliamentary burgh and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ardovie	a place	Groome
Keithock	seat	Bartholomew
Manlesden	a mansion	Groome
Maulesden	seat	Bartholomew
Muirland	school	Bartholomew
Murlingden	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 Brechin 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 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	3
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	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
Stracathro	0	2
Farnell	0	2
Careston	0	3
Dun	0	2
Menmuir	0	2
Inglismaldie	0	2
Logie Pert	0	2
Edzell	0	2
Aberlemno	0	2
Maryton	0	2
Kinnell	0	2
Guthrie	0	2
Luthermuir	0	2
Craigo	0	1
Marykirk	0	2
Hillside	0	2
Fern	0	2
Rossie	0	3
Craig	0	2
Montrose	15	3