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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BELHELVIE | Belhelvie Belhelvie Belhelvie Belhelvie Belhelvie Balhelvie |
New Stat. Act. [Statistical Account] P. 241 Revd. [Reverend] William Thomson (Belhelvie Manse) Col. [Colonel] J. Lumsden. C.B. [Companion of the Bath] (Belhelvie Lodge) Mr James Stephenson (Balmedie Ho. [House]) Valuation Roll 1860 Collections on the Shires of Aberdeen & Banff |
056; 057; 066 | " Balhelvie hath for its tutelar, Saint Colm. The Bishop of Aberdeen is the patron." (Col. on the S. of A. & Banff) [Collections on the Shires of Aberdeen & Banff] "The name of the parish is said to signify in Gaelic the mouth of the rivulets, and, accordingly, there are seven small rivulets that rise within the bounds of the parish. This parish is nearly a right angled parallelogram, 6 miles long, by 5 miles broad, and contains 30 Square miles. The Church is 8 miles north of Aberdeen, the south extremity four miles and the north extremity 10 miles from Aberdeen. It is bounded on the South by the parish of Old Machar, on the west by New machar, on the north by Foveran, and on the East, by the German Ocean. There are a number of low hills in this parish, that surround two ridges from South to North, the hills themselves and the ground between them gradually rising as they depart from the sea. The western boundary of the parish is one continued ridge of high land, about 800 feet above the level of the Sea. The whole of the Sea Coast is a beach of fine sand, bounded by sand-hills, covered with [bent] . Next to that is a narrow stripe of land covered with a sweet & hard grass, kept always for pasture. This stripe is so level that the Engineers appointed by Government to measure Scotland" [Continued] |
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[Page] 1Parish of Belhelvie
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