Foudland, an upland tract in Forgue, Insch, and Culsalmond parishes, Aberdeenshire. Flanking the upper basin of the Ury, and extending E and W, it rises to a maximum altitude of 1529 feet above sea-level, and has in main degree a bleak moorish surface. Slates of clear light blue colour and excellent quality abound in the Insch part of it; were long quarried to the amount of nearly a million pieces a year, chiefly for the market of Aberdeen; but ceased to be in high request, principally in consequence of the greater cheapness of sea-borne slates from the quarries of Easdale in Argyllshire.Ord. Sur., sh. 86,1876.
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