Old photograph of houses on Fountainhall Road in Aberdeen, Scotland. The name Fountainhall first appears in Taylor's map of 1773. The ground there contained some of the old stone Fountains or Cisterns, used from 1706 as storage wells for the Aberdeen water supply, and the neighbourhood was spoken of as Fountainha. This, however, is not " Fountainhall, " but local enunciation of " Fountain-haugh, " or hollow.
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