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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Portlethen like this:
Portlethen, a fishing village and a quoad sacra parish in Banchory-Devenick parish, Kincardineshire. The village stands on the coast, 7 furlongs E by S of Portlethen station on the North-Eastern section of the Caledonian railway, this being 8 miles S by W of Aberdeen. The quoad sacra parish, constituted by the court of teinds in 1856, is in the presbytery and synod of Aberdeen. The church contains 460 sittings. Pop. of village (1861) 265, (1871) 315, (1881) 315; of q. s. parish (1871) 1789, (1881) 1610.—Ord. Sur., sh. 67, 1871.
Portlethen is now part of ABERDEENSHIRE Council. Click here for graphs and data of how ABERDEENSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Portlethen itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Portlethen, in Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22259
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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