Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Bridge of Dee like this:

Dee, Bridge of, a south-western suburb of Aberdeen, on the river Dee, 2 miles from the centre of the city. It has a post office under Aberdeen.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Bridge of Dee by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bridge of Dee within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	August 7-13: Aberdeen and the North East	4

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
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Banchory Devenick	0	2
Aberdeen	72	4
Torry	0	2
Cults	0	2
Cove	0	2
Nigg	0	2
Old Machar	0	2
Old Aberdeen	0	1
Woodside	0	2
Grandholm	0	2
Findon	0	3
Bridge of Don	0	3
Balgownie	0	1
Portlethen	0	2
Newhills	0	2
Maryculter	0	2
Peterculter	0	4
Dyce	0	2
Cookney	0	2