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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| BALLATER | Ballater | Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland. Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Campbell Mr. Smith, late schoolmaster. |
091 | "A village in the parish of Glenmuick, Aberdeenshire, on the left bank of the Dee, 1 1/2 mile above Pannanich, and 41 1/2 west of Aberdeen. This is a fashionable watering-place. The chalybeate wells are at Pannanich which is always crowded during the summer months, but the visitors reside at Ballater. A bridge was built across the Dee here in 1783, but was destroyed by a river flood in 1799. A new bridge was finished at the end of the year 1811, with a waterway of 238 feet, at an expense of £4,224.0.0. It consisted of five arches, the middle arch having a span of 60 feet, the extreme arches of 34, and the intervening arches of 55 feet. This bridge also was swept away by the great flood in August 1829. 'The view of Ballater from the lower extremity of the plain' says Sir T.D. Lauder, 'is something quite exquisite. I do not speak of the village itself which, at that distance, presents little more than the indication of a town, with a steeple rising from it; but I allude to the grand features of nature by which it is surrounded. The very smallness of the town adds to the altitude of the mountains; for, when seen from the point I mean, it might be a city for aught the traveller knows to the contrary. It stands half hidden among trees in the rich and diversified vale. On the north side of it rises the mountainous rock of Craigdarroch, luxuriantly wooded with birch and divided off from the bounding mountains of that side of the valley by the wild and anciently impregnable Pass of Ballater. Beyond the river amidst an infinite variety of slopes and wood is seen the tall old hunting-tower of Knock; and beyond it, distance rises over distance, till the prospect is terminated by the long and shivered front, - and (when I saw it on the 15th of Octr. [October] last) the snow covered ridge of Loch-na-gar - the muse of the sublime genius of Byron, who, in his beautiful little poem, so entitled, still 'Sighs for the valley of dark Lochnagar.' " The village of Ballater chiefly consists of two storey slated houses, and the great majority of them are in excellent condition. Its public buildings are - a Bank, church, post office and police station. The village is on the property of Colonel Farquharson. |
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