Castleton of Braemar, vil., Crathie and Braemar par., SW. Aberdeenshire, near river Dee, 61 miles SW. of Aberdeen, 35 miles N. of Blairgowrie, and 30 miles NE. of Blair Athole, pop. 234; P.O., T.O., called Braemar; is the capital of the Deeside Highlands. On an eminence near the Invercauld Arms Hotel the Earl of Mar raised the standard of rebellion in 1715. In the neighbourhood are the deer-forests of Mar, Ballochbuie, and Balmoral.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))