Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Thurso, parish
Grid reference
ND 120 686 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
312000 968600
Latitude
58.59680329149785
Longitude
-3.514270856978524
Nearby places
Old St Peter's Kirk, Thurso (0 miles)
St Thomas's Church, Skinnet, Halkirk (4.14 miles)
Skinnet, former parish, Halkirk (4.14 miles)
Olrig, parish (4.21 miles)
St Trothan's Church, Olrig (4.21 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR given for St Peter's Church, Thurso, which includes a twelfth-century east end.
Relationships with other places
Contains Craig Andrew, Thurso
Contains Cross Kirk, church, Thurso
Contains Cross Kirk, church, Thurso
Contains Crosskirk, settlement, Thurso
Contains Crosskirk, settlement, Thurso
Contains Georgemas House
Contains Georgemas, Thurso
Contains Loch Caluim, Halkirk and Reay
the southern part of the loch, now in Halkirk, was formerly in a detached part of Thurso
Contains Old St Peter's Kirk, Thurso
Parish TLA
THU
County
Caithness
Medieval diocese
Caithness
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Thurso
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Thurso
Place
Thurso, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Historic formThorsan This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameThurso PlaceThurso, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceSHS Misc., vi, 68 Date of citation1276 x 1276 Feature named in sourcevicarius de |
Source code
SHS Misc.
Source title
The Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
Year
1893 -
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
The map interface was produced using the Leaflet.js library. Attribution for the base layers is as follows:
Default map:
Tiles © Esri — Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community
Satellite map:
Tiles © Esri — Source: Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community
Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
