A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Deechoid or Deadh Choimhead, a hill (1255 feet) in Muckairn parish, Argyllshire, 5½ miles E by S of Oban. Deer, a place in Morton parish, Dumfriesshire, near Morton Castle, and 2½ miles N by W of Thornhill. It has remains of an entrenched strong fortification, supposed to have been a Roman castellum. Deer, an ancient parish and a presbytery, partly in Banffshire, but chiefly in Aberdeenshire. The ancient parish was divided, about the year 1694, into the present parishes of New Deer and Old Deer. The presbytery, meeting at Mand, is in the synod of Aberdeen, and comprises the old parishes of Aberdour, Crimond, New Deer, Old Deer, St Fergus, Fraserburgh, Longside, Lonmay, Peterhead, Pitsligo, Rathen, Strichen, and Tyrie; the quoad sacra parishes of Ardallie, Blackhill, Boddam, Fraserburgh West Church, Inverallochy, Kininmonth, New Pitsligo, Peterhead East Church, and Savoch; and the chapelries of New Mand, Techmuiry, and Peterhead Robertson Memorial Mission Church. Pop. (1871) 49,199, (1881) 54,420, of whom 14,052 were communicants of the Church of Scotland in 1878.-The Free Church also has a presbytery of Deer, with 2 churches at Peterhead, and 11 at respectively Aberdour, Clola, Fraserburgh, Longside, New Deer, New Pitsligo, Old Deer, Pitsligo, Rathen, Strichen, and St Fergus, which together had 2832 communicants in 1881.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a hill" (ADL Feature Type: "mountains") |
| Administrative units: | Argyll ScoCnty |
| Place names: | DEADH CHOIMHEAD | DEECHOID | DEECHOID OR DEADH CHOIMHEAD |
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