Warthill, a modern Elizabethan mansion in Rayne parish, Aberdeenshire, 1¹/8 mile NNW of Warthill station on the Turriff and Macduff branch of the Great North of Scotland railway, this station being 3¾ miles NNW of Inveramsay Junction and 24¼ NW of Aberdeen. Its late owner, William Leslie, Esq. (1814-80), was Conservative member for Aberdeenshire 1861-66, and held 3960 acres in the county, valued at £4487 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 86, 1876.

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