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Old Photographs Aboyne Aberdeenshire Scotland

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Channel: tourscotland · 2018 · Travel & Events

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Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Aboyne, Scottish Gaelic: Abèidh, a village on the edge of the Highlands in Aberdeenshire. The location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the River Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the Mounth crossings. In 1242, after the expulsion from Scotland of John and Walter Byset of Clan Bissett, who had been alleged of the murder of Patrick, Earl of Atholl of Perthshire, at Haddington, East Lothian, Aboyne Castle passed to the Knights Templar in that year. It passed next to the Frasers of Cowie, before passing yet again, this time by marriage, to Sir William de Keith, Great Marischal of Scotland around 1355. In 1449, De Keith's great granddaughter, Joan, brought the castle by marriage to Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly in 1449. Its present owner is the Marquis of Huntly whose family has owned it since the early 15th century. Originally, there was a railway station in the village, but it was closed on 18 June 1966.  In 1715 Aboyne was the scene of a tinchal, or great hunt, organised by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar, on 3 September, as a cover for the gathering of Jacobite nobles and lairds to discuss a planned Jacobite uprising. The uprising began three days later in Braemar. The Highland Games on the Village Green features in August.

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