New Deer, Aberdeenshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place Type of entry Source
Auchriddie hamlet Bartholomew
Brucehill a tract of moor Bartholomew
Brucehill an extensive moorland tract Groome
Brucklay village and seat Bartholomew
Brucklay a hamlet Groome
Cairnbanno hamlet with school Bartholomew
Cairnbanno a hamlet, with a public school Groome
Culsh Hill Bartholomew
Ebrie a burn Groome
Fedderat Castle ruin (of unknown antiquity) Bartholomew
Federate a ruined castle Groome
Honeynook place with school Bartholomew
Knaven place with school Bartholomew
Nethermuir House seat Bartholomew
Nethermuir House an old mansion Groome
Oldwhat school Bartholomew
Whitehill 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
Buchan 5 2
Maud 0 2
Cairnbanno 0 2
Brucklay 0 2
Monquhitter 0 2
Cuminestown 0 3
Stuartfield 0 3
Pitsligo 3 4
Old Deer 0 3
Newbyth 0 2
Methlick 0 2
Strichen 3 2
Mintlaw 0 2
Tyrie 0 2
Byth 0 2
Woodhead 0 1
Mormond 0 2
Ythan 2 2
Ardallie 0 2
Craigston 2 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for New 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 NEW John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
NEW 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.