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Aboyne
Sign in to saveAboyne (, ) is a village on the edge of the Highlands in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the River Dee, approximately west of Aberdeen. It has a swimming pool at Aboyne Academy, all-weather tennis courts, a bowling green and is home to the oldest 18 hole golf course on Royal Deeside. Aboyne Castle and the Loch of Aboyne are nearby.
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Place details
- Locality
- Aboyne
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,650
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Aboyne
- UK place.scots_name
- Abyne
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Abèidh
- UK place.static_image_name
- Aboyne, the Green and Charlestown Road.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Green in Aboyne
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NO527986
- UK place.edinburgh_distance_mi
- 79
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 399
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Aboyne
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +2910
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Aboyne, the Green and Charlestown Road.jpg
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- Aberdeenshire
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Aboyne (, ) is a village on the edge of the Highlands in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the River Dee, approximately west of Aberdeen. It has a swimming pool at Aboyne Academy, all-weather tennis courts, a bowling green and is home to the oldest 18 hole golf course on Royal Deeside. Aboyne Castle and the Loch of Aboyne are nearby.
Aboyne has many businesses, including a Co-Op supermarket, several hairdressers, a butcher, a newsagent, an Indian restaurant and a post office. Originally, there was a railway station in the village, but it was closed on 18 June 1966. The station now contains some shops and the tunnel running under the village is now home to a firearms club. The market-day in Aboyne was known as Fèill Mhìcheil (Scottish Gaelic for "Michael's Fair"). ==History== The name "Aboyne" is derived from "Oboyne", first recorded in 1260, in turn derived from the Gaelic words "abh", "bo", and "fionn", meaning "[place by] white cow river".