Aberdeen, General
Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, General
Classification Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Old Aberdeen; New Aberdeen
Canmore ID 119097
Site Number NJ90NW 201
NGR NJ 9300 0800
NGR Description Centred NJ 9300 0800
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/119097
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 201 centred 9300 0800
For town gates, see NJ90NW 24.00.
For boundary markers, see NJ80NE 3, NJ90NW 135 and under individual boundary markers:
NJ80NW 13-17
NJ80NE 1 and NJ80NE 23 -7, 32, 35-6
NJ80SW 3, NJ80SW 6, NJ80SW 8, NJ80SW 19 -20
NJ80SE 7 and NJ80SE 13 -15, 19, 46-52
NJ81SE 18-19, 26-8
NJ90NW 61 and NJ90NW 137 -61
NJ90SW 17, NJ90SW 21, NJ90SW 32 -5.
See also Aberdeen, Torry Burgh (NJ90NE 17).
Aberdeen. A papal bull of 1157 confirmed to the bishop of Aberdeen 'totam decimam regis de burgo de Abbirdon', but the town's status as one of David's burghs is established by William the Lion's charter (1171x1185) granting his burgesses of Aberdeen (and others) their 'liberum ansum' (perhaps their merchant guild) as freely as their predecessors had it in the time of David I. The burgh's other early charters culminate in the feu-ferme grant (the first of its kind in Scotland) of 1319. It was in parliament from the years 1357-67.
Old Aberdeen was erected a burgh of barony (Bishop of Aberdeen), 26 December 1489.
G S Pryde 1965.
Air photographs: AAS/00/08/CT and AAS/00/12/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/100.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, General.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, Map of
The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, contains among the 'Uncatalogued MSS of General Hutton, and numbered 6 in Vol.11, a Map of Aberdeen, City and Harbour, to the scale of one and a half inches to one thousand feet. There is no date.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Architect: Archibald Simpson 1831 - plan for development of West End, never carried out.
Architect: James Stuart, London. 2nd premium for improving city. 1800.
Aberdeen, Newark Street, Sir Gabriel Wood's Mariners' Home.
Unable to locate at time of upgrade, 19.12.2000.
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Aberdeen, Old Free John Knox Church.
Precise location uncertain at time of upgrade.
Congregation moved in 1844 to a new residence at Gerrard Street, John Knox United Free Church.
See bibliography for information on the Old Free John Knox Church in book by A. Gammie.
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Aberdeen, Ministry of Agriculture, Fish & Food
Precise location uncertain at time of upgrade, 11/01/01
PSA Photograph Colletion Acc No 1993/85
Y/573/1-4 model
REFERENCE:
Aberdeen - Villa near for John Gordon.
Precise location uncertain at time of upgrade, 24/01/2001
S.N.B.R. Soane Museum Drawings - Adam Collection - Vol 46 Nos 8-12-5 prints, plans & elevations.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, Waterton Estate, Newhills Parish.
Owner: Messrs Pirie...Estate previously called "Stoneywood". (Source - Aberdeenshire 3rd Statistical Account, Pub 1960).
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, House of Bethany - Chapel. Unlocated at time of upgrade. 26.01.2001.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen - Skene Turnpike Road
Architect: J.F.Beattie alterations 1849 TO ROAD
Plans:
NMRS F.A.M.MacDONALD COLLECTION. J.F.Beattie 1849 - 1 sheet plan & sections of proposed alts.
