Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Coreen Hills

Coreen Hills, a mountainous range along the north-western border of the Howe or Vale of Alford, Aberdeenshire, culminating in Lord Arthur's Cairn (1699 feet), on the mutual boundary of Alford and Tullynessle parishes, 5 miles WNW of Alford village. Their laminar mica-slate, of a brownish-black colour, has long been worked.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a mountainous range"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountain ranges")
Administrative units: Aberdeenshire ScoCnty

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