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Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 1 - City of Aberdeen, OS1/1/1

Continued entries/extra info

[page] 461 Town of Aberdeen

An asterisk beside the place entry, Footdee, leads to an asterisk at the very foot of the page which reads:
This name also applies to a large District of Streets, Warehouses, foundries, Shipbuilding Yards and Storehouses as indicated by the character of the writing on Sheet LXXV [75]. 12.16

Note in red below entry for Footdee: It has of late become customary to spell the name of this village Footdee, as if it were derived from the circumstance of its lying adjacent to the embouchure or foot of the Dee; but the uniform Spelling in old writings is Futtie, or sometimes, though seldom, Fottie; and it may be observed that etymological propriety would require that if the name had reference to the foot of the Dee, it should have been either "Dee-foot" (as "Elvan-foot," "Bog-foot," etc.) or "Foot-o-dee" (as Foot-o-hill. -- etc. --- (New. Stat. Act. [Statistical Account] P. [Page] 5) Futtie ----- New. Stat, Act. [Stastistical Account] P. [Page] 5-73. ---

Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 1 - City of Aberdeen, OS1/1/1

This volume contains information on place names found in the city of Aberdeen.

Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Aberdeen, which is in the north east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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