Hatton, a village in Cruden parish, E Aberdeenshire, 8 miles NE of Ellon, under which it has a post office. At it are a branch of the Union Bank, a public school, and Cruden Free church (1844), which last was the nucleus of the village, and after which it at first was called the Free Kirkton of Cruden.Ord. Sur., sh. 87, 1876.
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