Banchory Devenick, Kincardineshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Banchory-Devenick parish Bartholomew
Banchory-Devenick a Deeside parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Ardo an estate Groome
Auchlee an estate Groome
Auchlee estate Bartholomew
Badentoy seat, and place with public school Bartholomew
Cults a hamlet Groome
Downies a fishing hamlet Groome
Hillside a village Groome
Portlethen fishing village Bartholomew

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
Cults 0 2
Bridge of Dee 4 1
Ferryhill 0 1
Nigg 0 2
Cove 0 2
Aberdeen 108 4
Torry 0 2
Findon 0 3
Maryculter 0 2
Old Machar 0 2
Woodside 0 2
Peterculter 0 4
Portlethen 0 2
Old Aberdeen 13 1
Newhills 0 2
Grandholm 0 2
Balgownie 0 1
Bridge of Don 2 3
Cookney 0 2
Dyce 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
BANCHORY DEVENICK 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.