Old Machar, Aberdeenshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Old Machar. You may be able to find further references to Old Machar in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Machar, Old parish Bartholomew
Machar, Old a parish Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Old Machar.

Place Type of entry Source
Broadford a manufacturing locality Groome
Don, Bridge of a suburb of Old Aberdeen Groome
Grandholm village, with woollen works Bartholomew
Grandholm a village, with woollen works Groome
Primrose school Bartholomew
Whitestripes school Bartholomew
Woodside a police burgh Groome
Woodside police burgh with railway station Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Woodside 0 2
Grandholm 0 2
Old Aberdeen 13 1
Balgownie 0 1
Bridge of Don 2 3
Aberdeen 108 4
Ferryhill 0 1
Torry 0 2
Bridge of Dee 4 1
Dyce 0 2
Newhills 0 2
Cults 0 2
Banchory Devenick 0 2
Cove 0 2
Belhelvie 0 2
Nigg 0 2
Findon 0 3
Blackburn 0 2
New Machar 0 2
Fintray 0 3

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Old Machar. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
MACHAR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
MACHAR OLD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
OLD MACHAR John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

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  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.