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Forest Of Drum
Park (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Forest Of Drum
Classification Park (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Old Wood; Forest Of Drum
Canmore ID 18552
Site Number NJ70SE 6
NGR NJ 79 00
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18552
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Drumoak
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ70SE 6 79 00.
The Forest of Drum (name 'Old Wood or Forest of Drum': NJ 790 008) is mentioned in a charter of 1203 x 1214. Within it lay the important royal Park of Drum, to which there are numerous references in charters, beginning in 1323. This Park was granted to Alexander Irvine of Drum in 1506/7, the grant being ratified in 1685. (In this context, a park was an enclosed game reserve surrounded by a ditch and bank, on top of which was a palisade.)
J M Gilbert 1979; M L Anderson 1967.
