Volume contents
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- 31A - Kennethmont , loose page
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- 72 - Kennethmont , Title Page
- 73 - Kennethmont , Index
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEITH HALL | Leith Hall (A.D. 1650) | Col. [Colonel] Leith Hay. C.B. [Companion of the Bath] Proprietor Mr. Maitland Craighall Doctor Mackie - Insch. |
043 | "Leith Hall is situated in the Parish of Kennethmont, and at the western extremity of the district of Garioch. It was, until altered by modern improvement, one of those massive, Towers, flanked by Turrets, which appears to have been in the close of the Sixteenth century, and during a period of the seventeenth, the peculiar style of architecture adopted by the Lairds of Aberdeenshire. It was, in its earlier days, defended by a strong wall, having a Turret at each angle, and containing an area of about two acres. About half a mile to the westward, runs the river Bogie, from whose left bank rises the hill of Noth, on the summit of which is the most remarkable specimen of a vitrified fort, either as to altitude, extent of area, or preservation extant in Great Britain. ********** "The Leiths of Edingarroch, the head of the family, and now represented by that of Leith Hall, were settled in Aberdeenshire in the reign of Alexander the Third, at which period, Sir Norman Leslie, progenitor of the Earl of Rothes, married a daughter of the Laird of Edingarroch. The immediate ancestor of the Leiths of Leith Hall was - William Leith of Barns, a person of rank and distinction in the reign of David." [Continued on page 30] |
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Parish of Kennethmont
Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 46 - Parish of Kennethmont, OS1/1/46
This volume contains information on Aberdeenshire place names found in the parish of Kennethmont.
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.