Manar, a commodious mansion, with finely-wooded grounds, in Inverurie parish, Aberdeenshire, near the left bank of the Don, 3½ miles WSW of Inverurie town. Its owner, Henry Gordon, Esq. (b. 1848; suc. 1874), holds 2260 acres in the shire, valued at £2115 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 76, 1874.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)