Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Quoich Water

Quoich Water, a stream of Crathie and Braemar parish, Aberdeenshire, formed by two head-streams on the eastern side of Benabourd at an altitude of 2273 feet, and winding 8½ miles south-by-eastward, till it falls into the Dee at a point 1¾ mile WSW of Castleton. It forms 1 mile above its mouth, a beautiful waterfall, the Linn of Quoich, its steep ravine being fringed with birch and pine.—Ord. Sur., sh. 65, 1870.


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

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Feature Description: "a stream"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Crathie and Braemar ScoP       Aberdeenshire ScoCnty

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