Deskford, parish

Grid reference

NJ 508 616 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

350800 861600

Latitude

57.64188556772359

Longitude

-2.8242382390120597

Nearby places

St John's Church, Deskford (0 miles)

St John's Well, Deskford (0.06 miles)

Cullen, parish (1.06 miles)

Combs Plantation, Deskford (1.43 miles)

Comb's Croft, settlement, Deskford (1.55 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Relationships with other places

Contains Comb's Croft, settlement, Deskford

Contains Combs Plantation, Deskford

Contains Hill of Clashmadin, Rathven and Deskford

Contains St John's Church, Deskford

Contains St John's Well, Deskford

Parish details

Deskford formerly a pendicle of Fordyce FRC

Parish TLA

DSK

County

Banffshire

Medieval diocese

Aberdeen

Parish notes

A pendicle of Fordyce FRC, the entire revenues of this chapel, which was probably erected in 15th c. and lay within the patronage of Ogilvie of that Ilk, accrued to the canons of Aberdeen cathedral, who maintained a curate in this charge (Banff Trans., 73 ff; Ass. 385, 385v; Fraser Papers 191-6). Cowan 1967, 46.