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HUNTLY

Volume 12 · 115 words · 1860 Edition

a burgh of barony and market-town of Scotland, Aberdeenshire, near the junction of the rivers Bogie and Deveron, and 39 miles N.W. of Aberdeen, with which it is connected by railway. It consists of two principal streets, crossing each other at right angles, with a marketplace at the point of intersection. An ancient bridge of a single arch crosses the Deveron, and a modern one of three arches spans the Bogie. Besides the parish church, there is a Free Church, and chapels for United Presbyterians, Independents, Episcopalians, and Roman Catholics. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of Huntly Castle (destroyed in 1594), and Huntly Lodge, the seat of the Duke of Richmond. Pop. (1851) 3131.