In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Collieston like this:
Colliston, a fishing village in Slains parish, Aberdeenshire, on a romantic small bay, ¼ mile S of Slains church, and 6 miles E by S of Ellon, under which it has a post office. Eighty years since a famous smuggling place, it offers a picturesque appearance, straggling among cliffs and over braes; and it carries on a vigorous trade in fishing for haddocks, cod, whitings, and turbot, and in preparing ' Colliston speldings,' or haddocks dried on the rock.
Collieston through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Collieston in Aberdeenshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21769
Date accessed: 24th May 2024
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