Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cornhill

Cornhill, a village in the Corncairn or northern district of Ordiquhill parish, Banffshire, on an affiuent of the Burn of Boyne, with a station on the Banffshire railway, 8½ miles SW by W of Banff, under which it has a post and telegraph office. Fairs are held here on the second Thursday of every month.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ordiquhill ScoP       Banffshire ScoCnty
Place: Cornhill

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