Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aboyne	a village and a parish	Groome
Aboyne and Braemar Railway	a line of S Aberdeenshire	Groome
Charleston of Aboyne	village with railway station	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 Aboyne 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.
Thomas Pennant	August 1-6: Loch Tay to Deeside	3

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
Birse	0	2
Coull	0	2
Kincardine Oneil	0	2
Cromar	0	1
Dinnet	0	2
Tarland	0	2
Lumphanan	0	2
Tanner	0	3
Leochel Cushnie	0	2
Cushnie	0	2
Craigievar	0	2
Logie Coldstone	0	1
Pannanich	0	3
Culblean	0	2
Tullich	0	1
Strachan	0	2
Morven	0	2
Ballater	0	2
Towie	0	2
Tough	0	2