Imprint:
Aberdeen : 1st Kingswells Guides, [2000s?]
Collation:
66 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally written in 1966 for the Kingswells Rural Institute entry in a village history book competition. Republished circa 2000s to raise money for the 1st Kingswells Guides.
Contents:
Acknowledgements - - Geography - - Boundaries - - Industries - - Map of area surrounding Kingswells - - Rivers and burns - - Towns - - Roads - - The Lang Stracht - - Old map of roads - - The Borrowstone Road - - The Skene Road - - The Switchback - - Groat's Road - - The Inverurie Road - - Geology - - Botany and zoology - - Ownership of lands through the centuries - - Kingswells Estate - - Kingswell House - - The Quakers' Graveyard - - Distinguished natives of Kingswells House - - The Alexander Jaffreys of Kingswells House - - References to Kingswells House in the literature - - The Broad Dyke - - Bogfairley Estate - - Fairley House - - Sir Harry and Lady Brooks of Fairley - - Cloghill House - - Derbeth - - Borrowstone - - Sheddocksley Estate - - Gillahill - - Newpark - - Whitemyres - - Maidencraig - - Churches and their history - - Newhills Church - - Kingswells Church - - Ministers of Kingswells - - Dr. Francis Edmond - - Kingswells Manse - - Church activities - - Schools and their history - - Kepplehills or Newhills - - The first Kingswells school - - The second Kingswells school - - Kingswells miscellany - - The Four Mile Inn and other hostelries - - Whiterashes - - The original shop - - Our village - - Transport - - Possible future development - - Social, domestic and communal - - The public hall - - Music and dancing - - Folk poetry - - Superstitions - - Local traditions - - Local recipes - - "The Rural" - - Ode to Kingswells - - Main Kingswells dates - - Alexander Jaffrey, the Covenanter - - Alexander Jeffrey, the diarist - - Andrew Jaffray - - Alexander Jaffrey, who wrote the "Recollections" - - Place names - - Books of reference.
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