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Aberdeenshire Main Page
This is the Umbrella project for Aberdeenshire.
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Scots: Coontie o Aiberdeen,
- Aberdeen buttery or "rowie". A cross between a pancake and a croissant and has a buttery, salty taste and heavy texture. It is usually eaten cold and served plain or with jam or butter.
- Aberdeen Sausage
- County (until 1975)
- Lieutenancy area
- Land registration county (from 1996)
Aberdeenshire or the County of Aberdeen, is a registration county of Scotland. This area (excluding Aberdeen itself) is also a lieutenancy area. In Scotland registration districts were introduced in 1855, and registration counties were used in subsequent censuses.
Until 1975 Aberdeenshire was one of the counties of Scotland, governed by a county council from 1890. The boundaries of the county were adjusted by the boundary commissioners appointed under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 that established the county council. In 1900, the county town of Aberdeen became a county of a city and was thus removed from the county.
The county bordered Kincardineshire, Angus and Perthshire to the south, Inverness-shire and Banffshire to the west, and the North Sea to the north and east. It had a coast-line of 65 miles (105 km).
In 1975 the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 reorganised local administration in Scotland into a two-tier system of regions and districts. Aberdeenshire, along with the City of Aberdeen, Banffshire, Kincardineshire and most of Morayshire were merged to form Grampian Region, with the former county being divided between the districts of City of Aberdeen, Banff and Buchan, Gordon and Kincardine and Deeside.
In 1996 Scottish local government system was reorganised a second time to form a single tier of unitary council areas. The name was revived for the council area of Aberdeenshire, which has different boundaries.
The area is generally hilly, and from the south-west, near the centre of Scotland, the Grampians send out various branches, mostly to the north-east.
From http://maps-of-scotland.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/map-of-aberdeenshire... where other interesting maps can be found.
(Alternate Numerical map available - linked to above address).
Aberdeen Parishes with dates of Parish Registers - Aberdeen and N.E. Scotland F H S.
A large fishing population in villages along the coast engage in the white and herring fishery, fostering the next most important industry to agriculture.
The mountains of Aberdeenshire provide the most striking of the physical features of the county.
The rivers are rich with salmon and trout, and the pearl mussel occurs in the Ythan and Don. A valuable pearl in the Scottish crown is said to be from the Ythan.
There are noted chalybeate springs at Peterhead, Fraserburgh, and Pannanich near Ballater.
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