Cruden, Aberdeenshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cruden coastal parish Bartholomew
Cruden a coast parish Groome

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

Place Type of entry Source
Aquharaney a mansion and estate Groome
Auchiries a village Groome
Auchries village Bartholomew
Bullers Buchan fishing village Bartholomew
Bullers-Buchan a small fishing village Groome
Bullers of Buchan a stupendous series of granite cliffs Groome
Coldwells school Bartholomew
Dunbny an insulated rock Groome
Finnyfold or Whinnyfold a fishing hamlet Groome
Hatton village Bartholomew
Hatton a village Groome
Longhaven seat Bartholomew
Longhaven a modern mansion Groome
Port Errol (or Ward of Cruden) fishing and sea-port village Bartholomew
Port-Errol or Ward-of-Cruden a coast village Groome
Slains Castle seat Bartholomew
Slains Castle the seat 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
Port Errol 0 3
Dunbuy 2 1
Bullers of Buchan 8 4
Hatton 0 2
Blackhill 0 2
Slains 6 2
Boddam 0 2
Buchan Ness 4 2
Ardallie 0 2
Collieston 0 3
Burnhaven 0 2
Forvie 1 2
Peterhead 4 4
Logie Buchan 0 1
Longside 0 2
Inverugie 0 2
Newburgh 1 2
Ellon 1 2
Stuartfield 0 3
Mintlaw 0 2

Names from historical writing

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

Name Author Source
CRUDEN 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.