Bishop's Loch, a beautiful lake in the SE of New Machar parish, Aberdeenshire, between Loch-hills and Fowlershill. Measuring 2 by ¾ furlongs, it was anciently called Loch Goul, and got its present name from having on its islet a residence of the Bishops of Aberdeen. That residence was the death-place, in 1282, of Bishop Hugh de Benham; appears to have been of small extent, and is still traceable in its foundations and drawbridge ditch.

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