Borrowfield

Borrowfield is a settlement in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in proximity to Netherley.[1]

History

Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp through the passing near borrowfield as they sought higher ground to avoid the bogs of Red Moss and other low-lying mosses associated with the Burn of Muchalls. That march used the Elsick Mounth, an ancient trackways crossing the Mounth of the Grampian Mountains,[2] lying west of Netherley.

People of Borrowfield

Patrick Tailzour was born here in the eighteenth century. The family included rich Jamaicans and Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet.[3]

Thomas Renny-Tailyour CB CSI (8 June 1863 – 10 June 1937) was a British Army officer and surveyor, born in Borrowfield.

Renny-Tailyour

See also

References
  1. United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004
  2. C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, editor: Andy Burnham (2007)
  3. Taylor family of Jamaica (1770–1835) Archived 2003-05-01 at the Wayback Machine, Casbah.ac.uk, retrieved 23 October 2014


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