Affleck is a rural area of Whiterashes

Whiterashes

Whiterashes is a hamlet in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, lying to the north-west of Newmachar and south-east of Oldmeldrum on the A947 road.-Sources:* in the Gazetteer for Scotland....

 in the Scottish

Scotland

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 council area

Council Area

A Council Area is one of the areas defined in Schedule 1 of the Local Government etc. Act 1994 and is under the control of one of the local authorities in Scotland created by that Act.-Legislation :1889...

 of Aberdeenshire. The name comes from the same origin as Auchinleck

Auchinleck

Auchinleck ; is a village five miles south-east of Mauchline, and a couple of miles north-west of Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland.Near the village is Auchinleck House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck.Auchinleck has much been associated...

.Other villages or farms in the area are, or have been called, North Affleck, South Affleck, Newton or Nether Affleck and a small forest or bush called the Woodside of Affleck.The area of land was first noted in the year 1255 when it was referred to as 'Achlek' in a document regarding land ownership between the Bishop and Church of Aberdeen and Arbroath Abbey.
"Liber S. Thome De Aberbrothoc; Registrorum Abbacie De Aberbrothoc. (Edited by Cosmo Innes and Patrick Chalmers)"