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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
POWFORD Powford
Powford
Powford
Valuation Roll 1860
Revd. [Reverend] William Reid The Manse
Mr. William Yool. Logie
052 An ordinary Cottage with outhouses garden etc. attached so called from the Pow Ford being near this place The property of The Right Hon. [Honourable] Lord Forbes
INCHDONALD Inchdonald
Inchdonald
Inchdonald
Revd. [Reverend] William]Reid
Mr. William Yool
Mr. John Murdoch
052 A small field or haugh known by this name
RIVER DON River Don
River Don
River Don
Revd. [Reverend] William Reid
Mr William Yool
Mr. John Murdoch
052 A Considerable river flowing in an Easterly direction and forming the parish boundary between this and Kildrummy from where the Mossat Burn joins it till the Burn of Littlewood joins it.
The River Don rises in a morass, sixty miles from Aberdeen, in the upper part of the parish of Strathdon & falls into the German Ocean about two miles north of the mouth of the Dee & one mile north east of the city of old Aberdeen It affords excellent sport for anglers. [Signed] R. Dickson

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Parish of Auchindoir & Kearn

POWFORD
"Pow, Pow. A slow moving rivulet." (Jamieson)

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