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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Brucklay, a hamlet in New Deer parish, Aberdeen shire, with a station on the Formartine and Buchan section of the Great North of Scotland, 1¾ mile N of Maud Junction. A public school here, with accommodation for 106 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 60, and a grant of £44,3s. 4d. Brucklay Castle, a little to the WSW, is a fine castellated mansion, 120 feet square, dating from the latter half of the 17th century, and four times enlarged between 1765 and 1864. It is the seat of Alex. Dingwall Fordyce (b. 1873), owner of 20,899 acres in the shire valued at £12,744 per annum, and son of the late Wm. D. Fordyce, M. P. for Aberdeenshire (1866-68), for E Aberdeenshire (1868-75). . - .
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | New Deer ScoP Aberdeenshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Brucklay |
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