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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76090
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
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
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.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
S.M.T. Magazine, July 1952, p. 38 - article and photograph.