Aberdour, Aberdeenshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Aberdour. You may be able to find further references to Aberdour in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Aberdour coastal parish and village Bartholomew
Aberdour a village and a coast parish Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Aberdour.

Place Type of entry Source
Brodie's Cairn a tumulus Groome
Cairn of Coburty Bartholomew
Chapelden place with ruined pre-Reformation chapel Bartholomew
Dara a rivulet Groome
Dardar a ravine Groome
Dardar ravine Bartholomew
Dour stream Bartholomew
Dour a burn Groome
Dundargue an ancient baronial fortalice Groome
New Aberdour village Bartholomew
Pennan fishing village Bartholomew
Pennan a fishing village Groome
Ugie a river Groome

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Pennan 0 2
Tyrie 0 2
Rosehearty 0 2
Troup 1 2
Pitsligo 3 4
Gardenstown 0 1
Gamrie 0 1
Byth 0 2
Strichen 3 2
Newbyth 0 2
Fraserburgh 1 3
Rathen 0 2
Mormond 0 2
Brucklay 0 2
Craigston 2 2
Cairnbulg 0 2
Cuminestown 0 3
Cairness 0 2
Maud 0 2
Inverallochy 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Aberdour. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
ABERDOUR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.