The Old Deeside Road : Aberdeen to Braemar : its course, history and associations
Fraser, G M (George Milne), 1862 - 19381980
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Finzean : Robin Callander, 1980.
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Facsimile of 1921 edition.Contents: Chapter 1: The need for extreme care in dealing with the Old Roads - Examples of confusion wrought by want of care in Aberdeen map-makers - The persistence of Old Roads and their importance in Scotland - The various surveys and plans showing the roads from Aberdeen in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - The main roads from Aberdeen described - The coming of the Turnpike Acts and their application in Aberdeenshire - Their effect on the re-making of the City of Aberdeen.Contents: Chapter 2: The value of Taylor and Skinner's road maps - The use of estate maps in tracing old roads - Length of the Old Deeside Road as compared with the New Deeside Turnpike - Four main diversions of the route noted - The milestones - The start of the road at Hardgate - The making of Holburn - The road in the Lands of Pitmuxton - Feuing at Pitmuxton - The lands of Broomhill - Diversion of the road at Auchinyell - In the lands of Pitfodels.Contents: Chapter 3: The Old Deeside Road at Kaimhill - Pitfodels and its proprietors - The Menzies family and their rule in Aberdeen - The last of the line - The Pitfodels Land Company - Diversion of the Old Deeside Road - Feuing at Drumgarth, Inchgarth, Norwood and Garthdee - Widening of the Old Road at Kaimhill - A right-of-way case - End of the Pitfodels Land Company.Contents: Chapter 4: The Old Road at Dr Morison's Bridge - The bridge and its story - The great flood of October 1920 - The road in the land of Cults - Its course near Allan Park - An obliterated portion - A fine piece of the road near Bieldside Golf Course - The narrowness of the road: a primitive method of overcoming it - Bieldside: the name and situation - A right-of-way at Powdeggie.Contents: Chapter 5: The Old Road at Newton Dee - Crossing the avenue at Murtle House - The story of Murtle and its proprietors - A lost piece of the road at Milltimber - Its probable course - Maryculter Bridge - The ferry and ford at Inch of Culter - Evidences of the great flood of 1920 - The Old Road at Culter Station - Defects of the old maps - A fine stretch of the road west of Kennerty - Historical interests - Belskavie Tower and the Roman Camp - Dalmaik Church and its memories.Contents: Chapter 6: Cross-country roads and ferries on the Dee - Their significance - List of ferries on the river - List of fords - Bridges on the Dee - The passes over the Grampians - Meaning of 'Mounth' - The Causey or Cowie Mounth - Elsick Mounth - The Slug Road - Cryne's Cross Mounth - The Stock Mounth - Builg Mounth.Contents: Chapter 7: The Mounth passes, continued - The Cairn-a'-mounth- Forest of Birse Mounth - The Fir Mounth - Mounth Keen - Capel Mounth - The Tolmounth - The Cairnwell Mounth - Glen Tilt Route - Glen Derry Drove Road from Strathspey - Minor passes.Contents: Chapter 8: The cross-country roads of Drumoak - Ancient approach to Drum Castle - Its course through prehistoric tumuli - Obliteration near the castle - The main North Road by Mills of Drum - Location of the great ford - The Castlehill and Church of Durris - The Couper's Road in Drum - Use of the road - Fairs in Aberdeenshire in old days - Share of the Couper's Road in suggesting the proposed Deeside and Alford Railway and the proposed Aboyne and Aberdeen canal.Contents: Chapter 9: The Old Deeside Road beyond Dalmaik - Its connection with the old 'Kirk Road' of Drum - Remains of the Church road and the stages of its disuse - The new Church and Manse of Drumoak - The Manse Garden on the Old Road - The Old Road at Keith's Muir - Bridge of Park - The road on Bakebare Park - Its line in Park Grounds - The road on the fields of Nether Park - At Mills of Drum - The old toll-house - First site of Crathes Station - The first time-table of the Deeside Railway - The Old Road at Crathes - Durris Bridge - Beyond Crathes Station - Remarkable relic of the Old Road: an existing bridge of the old highway.Contents: Chapter 10: The Old Road between Crathes and Banchory - Utilised for the new turnpike - Financial troubles in the making of the turnpike - The toll-houses and their returns - The Kirktown of Banchory - Removal of Banchory Church to the turnpike- A bit of the Old Road at Banchory Church - Changes in Banchory by the making of the new road - Rise of the present burgh - The Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Feugh - Banchory fairs - The road system of Banchory - The Lumphanan turnpike - The Strachan Road - The Slug Road - The South Deeside Commutation Road - Making of the South Deeside Turnpike.Contents: Chapter 11: The Old Road in Banchory - Historical interests and portions of the road at Inchmarlo - A fine stretch of the Old Highway from Bridge of Cannie - Moss Maud and its ancient castle - The Old Road at Kincardine O'Neil - The great ford of Inchbare on the Cairn-a'-mounth road - Commissioners on Highland roads and bridges and their work in Aberdeenshire - Requisition for a bridge at Potarch - Telford's survey of the site - William Minto, contractor, and his undertakings - Disaster to the bridge - Completion of the work and some results of the accident at Bridge of Potarch.Contents: Chapter 12: Kincardine O'Neil and its historical interests - The first bridge over the Dee - The Durwards and Coull Castle - Recent evacuations - A great cross-country road and its river crossing - Potarch Bridge - Alford and its bridges - The new and old roads from Kincardine O'Neil to Huntly - Present ford and ferry at Kincardine O'Neil - The Old Deeside Road from Kincardine O'Neil to Aboyne - Its disuse after the making of the turnpike - Its present condition - Its relation to the present village - A problem in old roads at Aboyne.Contents: Chapter 13: Aboyne and its interests - The ford and ferry - A notable Jacobite boatman of the district - A disastrous ferry-boat accident - The three bridges of Aboyne - The Turnpike Act of 1855 and the toll-houses - The road at Heugh-Head Inn - The ford and ferry at Waterside - A fine stretch of the Old Road at Ferrar - Association of Ferrar with the Huntly family - The present House of Ferrar - The ferry and ford at Old Glen Tanner Church - The Old Road at Mill of Dinnet.Contents: Chapter 14: Lines of roads at Burn of Dinnet - The ford and ferry of Dinnet - The building of the bridge and its approach roads - The Old Road from Dinnet to Cambus O'May - A fine stretch through the moor - Cambus ford and ferry - The foot-bridge erected - The Ford Road to Inchmarnoch and Pannanich - A lost hamlet - The road through Pannanich village - Pannanich Lodge - The Old Road from Cambus O'May to Tullich - The coaches and Tullich Bridge.Contents: Chapter 15: The Old Road connection with the ford and ferry at Ballater - Connection with the Easter Morven Track and the Monaltrie Path - The four bridges of Ballater -Transference of the Church and growth of the village - Making of the approach roads at Ballater - Extension of the railway to Ballater - The proposed course of the railway to Braemar - The Old Highway through the Pass of Ballater - The Loin Burn - Gairn Castle - Glengairn Church and its dedication - The branch road up Glen Gairn- Associations of the Glen.Contents: Chapter 16: The Old Road beyond the Pass of Ballater - The Bridges of Gairn - Polhollick Ferry and Bridge - Meaning of the name - The Old Road at Coillecrioch - At Easter Micras, Torgalter and Wester Micras - Historical roads of the district - Remains of the highway at Crathie - The Bridges of Balmoral - Old and new Balmoral Castles - The road at Crathie Post Office - A bridge of the Old Road on the Crathie Burn - From Lochnalair to the Military Road.Contents: Chapter 17: The Old Deeside Road as part of the Military Road to Fort George - Misconception as to General Wade's roads in the Highlands - What General Wade really did - The Deeside and Donside road no part of his work - The making of that roadin 1750-3 - Invercauld Bridge - Other military bridges in that region - Scheme for a new north road by Braemar to Tomintoul, Grantown and Elgin - A proposed timber bridge over the Dee at Braemar Castle - Failure of the scheme.Contents: Chapter 18 The Old Road at Cairn-na-Quheen - In front of Inver Post Office - Aberarder and its roads - An ancient road at Inver Inn - The Clagganghoul Quarry for Invercauld Bridge - The 'Danzig' Shiel and change of name - The Old Road at Invercauld Bridge - Closing of the South Deeside Road through Balmoral - The two Bridges of Invercauld - Road system of upper Deeside before the '45 - Re-discovery of the Old North Deeside Road in use before the erection of the old bridge - Approaching Braemar - Changes in the road and the bridge over the Clunie - Distinctive interest of Kindrochaid Castle, Braemar - Conclusion.Contents: Appendix A: The Causey Mounth Road - Appendix B: The Skene and Alford Road - Appendix C: Toll-houses in Aberdeenshire - Appendix D: The milestones in Aberdeenshire.Illustrations: Old Castle of Balmoral (7th October 1854) - Last house on Old Deeside Road: Hardgate, Aberdeen - Old Deeside Road west of Auchinyell Bridge, Ruthrieston: Garthdee farm on left - Old Deeside Road east of Allan Park, Cults - Old Deeside Roadat Bieldside Golf Course: club house in the distance - Old Deeside Road at Powdeggie Farm, Bieldside, showing small house built across the Old Road to stop its use - Pittengullies Farm-house, Milltimber (formerly Inn on the Old Deeside Road). Shows, on right, road going down to Inch of Culter ford and ferry - Inch of Culter ferry, looking down stream. In left foreground the single tree left as a guide for the boatman at night - Inch of Culter ferry houses: Inch of Culter behind, showing Old Ford Road going up the bank to the left. Looking S E - Bridge that carries the Old Deeside Road over the Culter Burn near Kennerty Smithy: looking down stream - Fir Mounth Memorial, Tillycairn, Glen Tanar.Illustrations: Old Deeside Road, Cairnton, Dalmaik. The stile leading from the Old Road into the old entrance-road to Drum - Old Deeside Road, Dalmaik: looking east from the cross-roads. Road on the right to Dalmaik old church, on the left, road to Drum Station, in foreground continuation of Old Deeside Highway - Bridge of Old Deeside Road at Crathes: showing railway bridge adjoining - Bridge of Old Deeside Road at Crathes, showing construction, taken from under the railway bridge - Old Deeside Road beyond Bridge of Cannie. In the foreground the turnpike road to Kincardine O'Neil, in front the Old Deeside Road leaving the line of turnpike to go by Craiglash, in the distance a glimpse of Ord Fundlie, between Torphins and Kincardine O'Neil - Balnacraig, Birse, home of the Inneses. The further end of the wing on the right was the chapel.Illustrations: Old Deeside Road near Kincardine O'Neil looking eastward from the cross-road that runs between Torphins and Kincardine O'Neil. In the left distance appears a shoulder of the Hill of Fare - Old Deeside Road between Cambus O'May and Dinnet, looking east - Old Ford Road, Cambus O'May to Pannanich: the road through Pannanich hamlet - House at Cambus O'May (west of station), formerly the Ferry Public House showing angle cut off to permit passing of trains. Old Deeside Road, at riverside, on left - Old Deeside Road at Cambus O'May, west of railway station - The old Fog House (now in ruins), Pass of Ballater [The Pass Road, formerly the Deeside Highway, runs along on the left - Third (timber) Bridge of Ballater, 1834 - 1885. Shows the Old Ford Road on the left. The present Parish Church (1873) was recently completed and is shown in the photograph still without the clock. The present Bridge of Ballater was built along the upper side of the one here shown.Illustrations: Ballater in 1851, showing Old (timber) Bridge and Ford Road, entrance to avenue at Monaltrie House in Aberdeen Road, Old Parish Church: the first church of Ballater, 1798, Low Road through the moor to join the Braemar Road near the Free Church which then stood on the high ground near the present entrance to Craigandarroch Lodge (Railway station not yet in existence) - Old 42nd milestone, Pass of Ballater, Craigandarroch on the left - Old Road at Tomadhubh, Crathie, showing, in foreground, where it leaves the present main road - Old Deeside Road behing Crathie Church, looking east from Crathie Post Office, Old Crathie School and Schoolhouse on left - Old Crathie Church, 1804 - 1893, looking northward - Old Bridge of Old Deeside Road over Burn of Crathie - Fraser's Bridge, Glen Clunie, Braemar, looking north-west: the present main road appears in the foreground, the Old Military Road (which crossed the bridge) is seen beyond the Clunie to the right.Illustrations: Braemar from the south showing, in foreground, the Old Military Road, now used as a road in the Golf Course. The Clunie flows beyond. In the distance is seen Ben Avon with its 'pinnacles' - Military Bridge over the Gairn at Gairnshiel, looking downstream - Old Deeside Road at Cairn-na-Quheen, looking east. The present main road runs along the high ground on the left - Old Invercauld Bridge (c 1752) looking east (Showing construction of present Invercauld Bridge, completed 1859) - Old Invercauld Bridge (c 1752) looking west - Old bridge over the Clunie, Braemar, removed 1863 - Present bridge over the Clunie, Braemar, looking up-stream - Part of the remains of Kindrochit (Ceann-Drochaid) Castle, Braemar.
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