Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Old Aberdeen like this:

Old Aberdeen. See ABERDEEN.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Old Aberdeen by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Old Aberdeen within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	2
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	1
John Wesley	1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Bridge of Don	0	3
Old Machar	0	2
Woodside	0	2
Grandholm	0	2
Balgownie	0	1
Aberdeen	72	4
Torry	0	2
Ferryhill	0	1
Bridge of Dee	0	1
Banchory Devenick	0	2
Dyce	0	2
Cults	0	2
Newhills	0	2
Cove	0	2
Belhelvie	0	2
Nigg	0	2
Findon	0	3
Blackburn	0	2
Portlethen	0	2
New Machar	0	2