Old Deer, Banffshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Deer, Old village Bartholomew
Deer, Old a village and a parish Groome
Old Deer Bartholomew

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aikey Brae place Bartholomew
Auchnagatt a hamlet Groome
Banks place with public school Bartholomew
Banks a place Groome
Clochcan a hamlet Groome
Clochcan hamlet with school Bartholomew
Clola hamlet Bartholomew
Clola a hamlet Groome
Crichie House seat Bartholomew
Crichie House a mansion Groome
Fetterangus a village Groome
Fetterangus village Bartholomew
Kinmundy seat Bartholomew
Pitfour an estate, with a mansion Groome
Pitfour House seat Bartholomew
Shannas school Bartholomew
Stewartfield village Bartholomew
Stewartfield a village Groome

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
Stuartfield 0 3
Mintlaw 0 2
Maud 0 2
Longside 0 2
Brucklay 0 2
Strichen 3 2
Buchan 5 2
Mormond 0 2
Ardallie 0 2
New Deer 0 3
Lonmay 0 2
Blackhill 0 2
Crimond 0 2
Pitsligo 3 4
Inverugie 0 2
St Fergus 0 2
Hatton 0 2
Rathen 0 2
Tyrie 0 2
Cairnbanno 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

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

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.