Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Findon

Findon.-- fishing vil. (ry. sta. Portlethen), near Findon Ness, on coast of Kincardineshire, 6 miles S. of Aberdeen, pop. 156; gives name to the well-knowr Findon (or Finnan) haddocks, first cured here.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "fishing village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kincardineshire ScoCnty
Place: Findon

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