Nigg, Kincardineshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Abbot's Walls the ruins of a summer residence of the abbots of Arbroath Groome
Altens coastal hamlet Bartholomew
Altens a coast hamlet Groome
Burnbank fishing village Bartholomew
Burnbank a fishing village Groome
Charleston of Nigg village Bartholomew
Cove a fishing village Groome
Cove fishing village with railway station Bartholomew
Fittick a place Groome
Girdle Ness a promontory Groome
Greyhope a small bay Groome
Kirkhill place with school Bartholomew
Loirston, Loch Bartholomew
Torry a fishing village Groome
Torry fishing 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
Findon 0 3
Portlethen 0 2
Cove 0 2
Banchory Devenick 0 2
Bridge of Dee 4 1
Cults 0 2
Ferryhill 0 1
Maryculter 0 2
Torry 0 2
Aberdeen 108 4
Muchalls 0 2
Cookney 0 2
Peterculter 0 4
Old Machar 0 2
Old Aberdeen 13 1
Woodside 0 2
Grandholm 0 2
Bridge of Don 2 3
Balgownie 0 1
Newhills 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
NIGG 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.