Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Aberdeen City, aka St Nicholas, parish
Grid reference
NJ 940 062 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
394000 806200
Latitude
57.14683324861408
Longitude
-2.099169392977513
Nearby places
Church of St Nicholas, Aberdeen (0 miles)
St Thomas's Hospital, Aberdeen (0.06 miles)
St Catharine's Hill, Aberdeen (0.12 miles)
St Catherine's Chapel, Aberdeen (0.12 miles)
Ladycroft, settlement Aberdeen (0.31 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the kirk, originally 12th century cruciform building.
Relationships with other places
Contains Church of St Nicholas, Aberdeen
Parish details
St Nicholas now Aberdeen City
Parish TLA
ASN
County
Aberdeenshire
Medieval diocese
Aberdeen
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Nicholas Aberdeen
Head name
St Nicholas Aberdeen
Place
Aberdeen City, aka St Nicholas, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Place-name data
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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
