Dinnet, Aberdeenshire

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Dinnet is a village in Aberdeenshire

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Dinnet within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Dinnet in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Dinnet, quoad sacra par. and sta. on Deeside Ry., Aboyne and Glentanner par., Aberdeenshire, pop. 311; P.O.; the sta. is 4½ miles W. of Aboyne; Dinnet Burn (generally considered the natural line between the Highlands and Lowlands of Deeside) issues from Loch Davan, and flows. 2 miles SE. to the Dee; the Muir of Dinnet, a dismal tract, containing several cairns and vestiges of ancient warfare, stretches between Dinnet sta. and Cambus O'May sta., 2½ miles SW.

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