Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dee

Dee.-- river, partly of Kincardineshire but chiefly of Aberdeenshire; rises amongst the Cairngorm Mountains, on SW. border of Aberdeenshire, and flows E. past Castleton of Braemar, Ballater, and Aboyne, to the sea at Aberdeen; is 87 miles long, and is still one of the most finely wooded and one of the best fishing rivers in Britain; about 6 miles above Castleton of Braemar it forms a series of cascades called the Linn of Dee.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Aberdeenshire ScoCnty
Place: Dee

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