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From: Gavin Bell <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] NELLFIELD HOSE ABERDEEN
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:30:37 +0000
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Edith Talbot wrote:

>HI All,
>Can anyone help with the location of nellfield house Aberdeen, this is
>listed as an address where an ancestor lived in the 1860's.
>Many thanks
>
>edith talbot
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Nellfield House and its grounds originally occupied most of the triangle
of land now enclosed by Holburn Street, Great Western Road (formerly
Cuparston Place) and Nellfield Place. But starting in the mid-1830s,
the grounds were bit-by-bit surrendered to form Nellfield Cemetery.
When it first opened for business, the Cemetery occupyied only the
northmost part of the grounds, but by the time the large-scale map of
Aberdeen was surveyed in 1866-7, the first extension to the Cemetery had
been laid out, and the southern wall of the Cemetery was hard up against
the back of Nellfield House. The house was eventually demolished to make
way for the second, southernmost extension, which borders on Nellfield
Place. I don't know the precise date when this happened.

You can view the map on the National Library of Scotland website. Go to:

http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/townplans/aberdeen_sw.html

and then click on the rectangle marked "LXXV.15.1" near the bottom
left-hand corner of the index plan. The resulting image is best viewed
with the optional "Plug-In".


Gavin Bell

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