Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Tullynessle & Forbes, modern parish
Grid reference
NJ 558 196 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
355800 819600
Latitude
57.26512167558916
Longitude
-2.732895993141273
County
Aberdeenshire
Nearby places
Tullynessle, former parish, TUF (0 miles)
St John's Close, Tullynessle (1.75 miles)
St Andrew's Church, Alford (2.26 miles)
Alford, parish (2.26 miles)
Forbes, frmr parish, Tullynessle & Forbes (2.94 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for Tullynessle and Forbes parish church as shown on OS Digimap.
Relationships with other parishes
Contains Forbes, frmr parish, Tullynessle & Forbes
Contains Tullynessle & Forbes, modern parish
Within Tullynessle & Forbes, modern parish
Contains Tullynessle, former parish, TUF
Contains Tullynessle, former parish, TUF
Relationships with other places
Adjacent Brux Hill, Auchindoir & Kearn
Contains St John's Close, Tullynessle
Parish details
Created by the union of the parishes of Tullynessle TNX and Forbes FBX in the seventeenth century.
Parish TLA
TUF
County
Aberdeenshire
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Tullynessle & Forbes
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Tullynessle & Forbes
Place
Tullynessle & Forbes, modern parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
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Satellite map with labels:
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Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
