Cromdale, a place in Elginshire, on the right bank of the Spey, 5 miles NE. of Grantown. Here, on 1st May 1690, 800 Jacobite Highlanders were surprised and routed by a body of King William's dragoons. This encounter is celebrated in a song called The Haughs of Cromdale.
Cromdale
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 577
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