Pitfour, an estate, with a mansion, in Old Deer parish, Aberdeenshire, 2 miles W by N of Mintlaw. The mansion is a large square building, and the park and policies are of great beauty, £80, 000 having been spent on improvements by the late Admiral Ferguson, whose son, George Arthur Ferguson, Esq. (b. 1835; suc. 1867), holds 12, 305 acres in the shire, valued at £10, 492 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 87, 1876.

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