Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ellon. You may be able to find further references to Ellon in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ellon	a village and a parish	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ellon.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Arnage	a railway station	Groome
Birness	hamlet	Bartholomew
Birness	a post office hamlet	Groome
Drumwhindle	school	Bartholomew
Dudwick	an estate	Groome
Dudwick	estate	Bartholomew
Esslemont	an estate, with a station and a mansion	Groome
Turner Hall	an old mansion	Groome
Turner Hall	seat	Bartholomew

Travel writing

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 Ellon 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.
James Boswell	August 24th to 26th, 1773: Aberdeen to Forres	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
Logie Buchan	0	1
Ythan	0	2
Newburgh	0	2
Foveran	0	2
Forvie	0	2
Collieston	0	3
Udny	0	2
Slains	0	2
Tarves	0	2
Formartine	0	2
Ardallie	0	2
Hatton	0	2
Methlick	0	2
Whiterashes	0	2
Belhelvie	0	2
New Machar	0	2
Cruden	0	2
Port Errol	0	3
Meldrum	1	2
Stuartfield	0	3