In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Port Errol like this:
Port-Errol or Ward-of-Cruden, a coast village in Cruden parish, Aberdeenshire, at the mouth of the Water of Cruden, 11½ miles NE of Ellon, under which it has a post and telegraph office. A promising station of the herring fishing, it has a lifeboat and rocket apparatus, an hotel, 68 boats, and a recent harbour, whose inner basin is 300 feet long and 150 to 175 feet wide. The Aberdeen Lime Co. here ships corn, and imports coal, manures, etc., doing a large business. Pop. (1881) 493.—Ord. Sur., sh. 87, 1876.
Port Errol through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Port Errol in Aberdeenshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22257
Date accessed: 03rd June 2024
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