Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Auldearn

Auldearn, coast par. and vil., in co. and 2½ miles SE. of Nairn -- par., 14,035 ac., pop. 1292; vil., pop. 363; P.O. Here, in 1645, Montrose defeated the Covenanters under the command of John Hurry or Urry.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Auldearn ScoP       Nairnshire ScoCnty
Place: Auldearn

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