We could not match "PORTLETHEN" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 14 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "PORTLETHEN" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "PORTLETHEN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	Portlethen, Skene, and Stoneywood. Pop. (1871) 111,807, the communicants numbering 22,687 in 1878, and the sums raised for Christian	Groome
  Aberdeen Railway	Aberdeenshire Angus	Portlethen, Newtonhill, and Muchalls, to Stonehaven: goes thence through the fertile district of the Mearns, by the stations of Drumlithie	Groome
  Aberdeenshire	Aberdeenshire	Portlethen, Mr Geo. Brown of Westertown, Mr Jas. Skinner of Drumin, and Mr Al. Paterson of Mulben, who have found	Groome
  Banchory-Devenick	Aberdeenshire Kincardineshire	Portlethen; the latter, constituted in 1856, having 1610 inhabitants in 1881. Its church (460 sittings) is close to Portlethen station	Groome
  Downies	Kincardineshire	with a small harbour, in the extreme SE of Banchory-Devenick parish, Kincardineshire, 1 mile S by E of Portlethen station.	Groome
  Downies	Kincardineshire	Downies , fishing hamlet with small harbour, 1 mile SE. of Portlethen ry. sta., NE. Kincardineshire.	Bartholomew
  Elsick House	Kincardineshire	Elsick House , 2½ miles SW. of Portlethen sta., Kincardineshire.	Bartholomew
  Findon	Kincardineshire	Portlethen), near Findon Ness, on coast of Kincardineshire, 6 miles S. of Aberdeen, pop. 156; gives name to the well	Bartholomew
  Findon or Finnan	Kincardineshire	Portlethen station, this being 8 miles S by W of Aberdeen. It is a little place, of no more consequence	Groome
  Hillside	Kincardineshire	Hillside , vil., Banchory Devennck par., NE. Kincardineshire, 1 mile N. of Portlethen sta.; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Hillside	Kincardineshire	Hillside, a village in Banchory-Devenick parish, Kincardineshire, 1 mile N of Portlethen station. It has a post office under Aberdeen.	Groome
  Kincardineshire	Kincardineshire	Portlethen to Findon there is a general dip to the S or SSE. In the eastern portion of the county	Groome
  Portlethen	Kincardineshire	Portlethen , fishing vil. and quoad sacra par. with ry. sta., Banchory-Devenick par., NE. Kincardineshire - quoad sacra par., pop. 1610; vil., 8 miles	Bartholomew
  Portlethen	Kincardineshire	Portlethen, a fishing village and a quoad sacra parish in Banchory-Devenick parish, Kincardineshire. The village stands on the coast	Groome

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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