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Turriff, Aberdeenshire - Ordnance Survey Map 1892-1914 Turriff Castle was a tower house , on Castlegate, Turriff , north of Idoch Water , Aberdeenshire , Scotland . [ 1 ] The castle was also called Tower of Torrey [ 2 ] of Castle Rainy.
Castle hill, Deveron country house AKA Buckleys 57°32′16″N 2°27′49″W / 57.537654°N 2.463552°W / 57.537654; -2.463552 ( Castle hill, Deveron country house AKA Category B
Turriff has a primary school, Turriff Primary School, and a secondary school, Turriff Academy. Turriff Primary School is a new build which replaced the old Markethill Primary School and opened to pupils on 22 August 2017. People from the surrounding areas, including the villages of Cuminestown, Fyvie and King Edward, attend the secondary school.
Forglen House is a mansion house that forms the centrepiece of the Forglen estate in the parish of Forglen, north-west of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, in the north-east of Scotland. The lands were given to the abbots of the Abbey of Arbroath by King William the Lion before 1211 and the Monymusk Reliquary was held there.
Fyvie Castle has featured in a number of British television programmes, such as Living TV's Most Haunted series 6 [9] and STV's Castles of Scotland. The castle also played host of the setting of a children's gameshow on CBBC called Spook Squad in 2004. 2009 saw the publication of the children's fantasy novel, The Time-Tailor and the Fyvie Castle Witch Trials, written by Deborah Leslie.
On 13 May 1639, during the First Bishops' War, the castle was the scene of the first fatality of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms during the "Trot of Turriff" engagement. [4] In 1752, Charles Maitland Barclay sold Towie Barclay Castle to James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater whose family sold it to Robert Gordon's Hospital in Aberdeen in 1792. [3]
King Edward (Gaelic: Cinn Eadar) is a small village, parish and former feudal barony near the north coast of Scotland in Buchan midway between Turriff and Banff. The old church of King Edward with historic graveyard was founded around 1124 and dedicated to St Aidan. The last service in the old church was on 25 June 1848, after which services ...
The Treasure Houses of England group is a heritage consortium. It was founded in the early 1970s by nine of the foremost stately homes in England still in private ownership, with the aim of marketing and promoting themselves as tourist venues.