Aberlour
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Aberlour () is a town in Moray, Scotland, south of Elgin on the road to Grantown. The Lour burn is a tributary of the River Spey, and it and the surrounding parish are both named Aberlour, but the name is more commonly used in reference to the village which straddles the stream and flanks the Spey – although the full name of the village is Charlestown of Aberlour.
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Place details
- Locality
- Aberlour
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,020
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Aberlour
- UK place.static_image
- Aberlour Highland March 2025.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Aberlour highland march in 2025
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Obar Lobhair
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NJ271433
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Moray
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Moray
- UK place.post_town
- ABERLOUR
- UK place.postcode_district
- AB38
- UK place.postcode_area
- AB
- UK place.dial_code
- 01340
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Aberlour () is a town in Moray, Scotland, south of Elgin on the road to Grantown. The Lour burn is a tributary of the River Spey, and it and the surrounding parish are both named Aberlour, but the name is more commonly used in reference to the village which straddles the stream and flanks the Spey – although the full name of the village is Charlestown of Aberlour.
== Etymology == Aberlour, recorded in 1226 as Aberlower, means 'confluence of the Lour burn'. The first element is the Pictish word aber 'river mouth, confluence'. The name of the Lour burn is from Gaelic labhar 'loud, noisy'. This probably replaced an earlier Pictish cognate word. Charlestown refers to Charles Grant of Elchies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aberlour” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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