Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Aviemore

Aviemore (Gael. abh-mor, ` great water '), a station on the Highland railway in Duthil parish, E Invernessshire, near the left bank of the Spey and at the base of Craigellachie, 12½ miles SW of Grantown. Here is a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments; and 3 furlongs to the N is Aviemore House.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place names: ABH MOR     |     AVIEMORE
Place: Aviemore

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