Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kingston or Kingston-Port

Kingston or Kingston-Port, a seaport village in Urquhart parish, Elginshire, near the left or W side of the mouth of the river Spey, ¾ mile N of Garmouth, and 5 miles N by W of Fochabers. It owes at once its origin and name to the establishment here (1784) of timber and shipbuilding yards by Messrs Dodsworth and Osborne of Kingston-upon-Hull; and shipbuilding is still carried on, but with foreign timber, and not so largely as once. All but three or four houses have been built since 1810. The Spey here, in January 1854, was frozen completely over, so as to afford a passage without the aid of a wherry, a circumstance unparallelled within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Pop. (1841) 396, (1861) 434, (1871) 403, (1881) 326.—Ord. Sur., sh. 95, 1876. See Spey and Garmouth.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a seaport village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Urquhart ScoP       Moray ScoCnty
Place names: KINGSTON     |     KINGSTON OR KINGSTON PORT     |     KINGSTON PORT
Place: Kingston

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