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Kintore

Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Kintore

Classification Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Old Burgh Of Kintore

Canmore ID 76090

Site Number NJ71NE 86

NGR NJ 7928 1630

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Kintore
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Recording Your Heritage Online

KINTORE BURGH. Hard by the slack reaches of the Don which winds behind the kirk, flooding occasionally over the haughs, Kintore became a royal burgh early (c.1190; charter renewed 1506). Yet it did not expand, losing out to nearby Inverurie. On the Great North of Scotland Railway, and the junction for the line to Alford. The Keith Lord Kintore owned three-quarters of the parish and the Town House 'but under a decree of the Court of Session is bound to give the council a room for their meetings and to pay the municipal expenses of the burgh ...' (Groome).

Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

Archaeology Notes

NJ71NE 86 79 16

Kintore was erected a royal burgh in 1187x1200.

G S Pryde 1965.

(Name cited as Old Burgh of Kintore and location as NJ 7928 1626). Air photography: AAS/82/08/S10/12, flown 1 July 1982.

NMRS, MS/712/67.

Architecture Notes

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

S.M.T. Magazine, July 1952, p. 38 - article and photograph.

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