Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kirkwall	a parish, with a royal burgh	Groome
Kirkwall	a royal and parliamentary burgh, the county town and chief town of Orkney, and a sea-port	Groome
Kirkwall and St Ola	parish	Bartholomew

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Scapa	pier	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 Kirkwall 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	Smaller Islands in the British Ocean	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
St Andrews	0	2
Holm	0	2
Firth	0	2
Finstown	0	2
Shapinsay	0	2
Mainland	0	2
Gairsay	0	2
Scapa Flow	0	2
Orphir	0	2
Deerness	0	2
Stenness	0	2
Burray	0	2
Evie	0	3
St Margarets Hope	0	2
Egilsay	0	2
Flotta	0	2
Stromness	0	2
Graemsay	0	2
Rousay	0	1
Sandwick	0	2