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Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 81 - Parish of Strathdon, OS1/1/81

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Parish of Strathdon

[Note beside 'Torran Dubh']
Torran. A little hill of knoll.
Dubh. Blackness, darkness. (Gaelic)

[Note beside 'Bruach Ruadh']
Bruach. A bank, brink, border, A steep, A precipice; An edge, brim, A small rising ground.
Ruadh. (Ruadh adj. [adjective]) A deer, hind, or roe (Gaelic)

[Note beside 'Allt Bad a' Chùirn']
Allt Bad a Chaorruinn
A clump of the rowan &c [Initialled] JMcD
Allt. A mountain stream
Bad. A tuft. Cluster: bunch. &c
Chuirn. The abrupt ending of the head of
the hill or something like that. (Gaelic)
This current is named from Bad a b[ush]

Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 81 - Parish of Strathdon, OS1/1/81

This volume contains information on Aberdeenshire place names found in the parish of Strathdon.

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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