Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Duffus, parish
Grid reference
NJ 174 686 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
317400 868600
Latitude
57.6998675844381
Longitude
-3.386029788147456
Nearby places
St Peter's Kirk, Duffus (0 miles)
St Peter's Well, well, Duffus (0.14 miles)
St Lawrence's Well, well, Duffus (0.14 miles)
St Bennet's Well, Duffus (0.59 miles)
Michael Kirk, Ogston, Drainie (1.13 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for St Peter's Church.
Relationships with other places
Contains St Aethan's Well, Duffus
Contains St Aethan's Well, Duffus
Contains St Aethans, settlement, Duffus
Contains St Bennet's Well, Duffus
Contains St Lawrence's Well, well, Duffus
Contains St Peter's Kirk, Duffus
Contains St Peter's Well, well, Duffus
Parish details
Duffus
Parish TLA
DUF
County
Morayshire
Medieval diocese
Moray
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Duffus
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Duffus
Place
Duffus, 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?
Maybe
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Duffhus 1274, NLS Adv.MS.35.2.4
Historic formDuffhus This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameDuffus PlaceDuffus, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceNLS Adv.MS.35.2.4, ii fo. 219r no. 11 Date of citation1274 x 1274 Feature named in sourceDomino Roberto vicario de Notes on the context of this place-name2 volumes of copies of Scottish charters made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane. Although lettered as vols. i and ii of the same collection, they are different in layout and character and are written by different hands. Only those charters the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail. Vol. ii is called Diplomatum Collectio. |
Source code
NLS Adv.MS.35.2.4
Author
Walter Macfarlane et al.
Volume
i and ii
Year
18th c.
Notes
2 volumes of copies of Scottish charters made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane. Although lettered as vols. i and ii of the same collection, they are different in layout and character and are written by different hands. Only those charters the present location of whose originals is unknown are indexed in detail. Vol. ii is called Diplomatum Collectio.
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