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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Alford. You may be able to find further references to Alford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Alford | a village and a parish | Groome |
Alford, Howe or Vale of | that portion of the Don's basin | Groome |
Alford, Howe or Vale of | portion of river Don's basin | Bartholomew |
Alford Valley Railway | a railway | Groome |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Alford.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Buckie | hamlet and burn | Bartholomew |
Gallowhill | a hamlet, with a public school | Groome |
Gallowhill | school | Bartholomew |
Haughton | a mansion, with finely-wooded grounds | Groome |
Haughton | seat | Bartholomew |
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 Alford 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. |
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Thomas Pennant | August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East | 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 |
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Forbes | 0 | 2 |
Tullynessle | 0 | 2 |
Keig | 0 | 2 |
Tough | 0 | 2 |
Craigievar | 0 | 2 |
Leochel Cushnie | 0 | 2 |
Leslie | 0 | 2 |
Cushnie | 0 | 2 |
Premnay | 0 | 2 |
Clatt | 0 | 2 |
Kildrummy | 2 | 2 |
Monymusk | 0 | 2 |
Christskirk | 0 | 2 |
Lumphanan | 0 | 2 |
Lumsden | 0 | 2 |
Kearn | 0 | 1 |
Cluny | 0 | 2 |
Auchindoir | 0 | 2 |
Kennethmont | 0 | 3 |
Insch | 0 | 2 |