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Portlethen, a fishing village and a quoad sacra parish in Banchory-Devenick parish, Kincardineshire. The village stands on the coast, 7 furlongs E by S of Portlethen station on the North-Eastern section of the Caledonian railway, this being 8 miles S by W of Aberdeen. The quoad sacra parish, constituted by the court of teinds in 1856, is in the presbytery and synod of Aberdeen. The church contains 460 sittings. Pop. of village (1861) 265, (1871) 315, (1881) 315; of q. s. parish (1871) 1789, (1881) 1610.—Ord. Sur., sh. 67, 1871.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a fishing village and a quoad sacra parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kincardineshire County |
| Place: | Portlethen |
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