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Fettercairn
Sign in to saveFettercairn (, ) is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, northwest of Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire on the B966 from Edzell. Fettercairn is also reached via the Cairn O' Mount road (B974) from Deeside.
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Place details
- Locality
- Fettercairn
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Fettercairn
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Fothair Chàrdain
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Kincardineshire
- UK place.static_image_name
- Fettercairnarch John Aldersley-Williams.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Royal Arch by John Milne
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NO650734
- UK place.postcode_district
- AB30
- UK place.postcode_area
- AB
- UK place.post_town
- LAURENCEKIRK
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Angus North and Mearns
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Fettercairndistscotaug05 021.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fettercairn
- historic county
- Kincardineshire
- P8168
- Zimmern
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- 18 to 19th centuries
- Education
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Fettercairn (, ) is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, northwest of Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire on the B966 from Edzell. Fettercairn is also reached via the Cairn O' Mount road (B974) from Deeside.
The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Fothair and the Pictish carden and means "slope by a thicket". The name appeared as Fotherkern in c. 970.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fettercairn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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