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Colliston, a fishing village in Slains parish, Aberdeenshire, on a romantic small bay, ¼ mile S of Slains church, and 6 miles E by S of Ellon, under which it has a post office. Eighty years since a famous smuggling place, it offers a picturesque appearance, straggling among cliffs and over braes; and it carries on a vigorous trade in fishing for haddocks, cod, whitings, and turbot, and in preparing ' Colliston speldings,' or haddocks dried on the rock.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a fishing village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Slains ScoP Aberdeenshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Collieston |
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