Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Brucehill

Brucehill, an extensive moorland tract in New Deer parish, Aberdeenshire, about 1 mile W of New Deer village. Edward Bruce is said to have encamped here after the battle of Inverurie, and to have gone hence in pursuit of the Comyns to Aikey Brae.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "an extensive moorland tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "shrublands")
Administrative units: New Deer ScoP       Aberdeenshire ScoCnty

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