Newhills, Aberdeenshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Newhills parish Bartholomew
Newhills a parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchmill, or Auchmull a village Groome
Bankhead a village Groome
Bankhead village Bartholomew
Buxburn village, and station on Great North of Scotland Railway Bartholomew
Buxburn a Donside hamlet Groome
Cloghill an estate, with a mansion Groome
Fairlee seat Bartholomew
Fairlie a mansion Groome
Greenburn a place Groome
Greenburn place with fairs Bartholomew
Hazlehead a mansion Groome
Kepplehills place with school Bartholomew
Kingswells hamlet and seat Bartholomew
Sclattie part of Bartholomew
Stoneywood a village Groome
Woodend a village Groome
Woodend village Bartholomew

Travel writing

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

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Dyce 0 2
Woodside 0 2
Blackburn 0 2
Grandholm 0 2
Old Machar 0 2
Balgownie 0 1
Cults 0 2
Kinellar 0 2
Skene 0 2
Banchory Devenick 0 2
Ferryhill 0 1
Old Aberdeen 13 1
Aberdeen 108 4
Kinaldie 2 2
Bridge of Dee 4 1
Bridge of Don 2 3
Fintray 0 3
Peterculter 0 4
Torry 0 2
Maryculter 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NEWHILLS 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:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • 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.