Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Old Meldrum

Old Meldrum, par. and vil. with ry. sta., mid. Aberdeenshire - par., 8102 ac., pop. 2254; vil., 5½ miles NE. of Inverurie Junction and 19 miles NW. of Aberdeen rail, pop. 1494; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Saturday. Old Meldrum was made a burgh of barony in 1672. It has a distillery.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Meldrum Parish       Aberdeenshire County
Place: Meldrum

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