Kinker
Kinker
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Location within Aberdeenshire | |
Population | 338 (2010) [1] |
OS grid reference | NO592997 |
Cooncil area | |
Lieutenancy area | |
Kintra | Scotland |
Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
Post toun | Aboyne |
Postcode destrict | AB34 |
Diallin code | 013398 |
Police | Scots |
Fire | Scots |
Ambulance | Scots |
EU Pairlament | Scotland |
UK Pairlament | |
Scots Pairlament | |
Kinker (Inglis: Kincardine O'Neil Scots Gaelic: Cinn Chàrdainn) is a village in Aiberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situatit atween the toons o Abyne an Banchry, aboot 25 mile wast o Aiberdeen aside the River Dee.
It wis makit a conservation airt in 1978. The Deeside Wey passes throu the village.
Historie
[eedit | eedit soorce]Sin auncient times there wis a crossin o the Dee at Kinker.[1] Locations o the Dee crossin alang wi alinement o auncient trackweys makit the airt a guid place fur castles an aerlie settlers. In the airt o Kinker the Middle Ages trackweys til the sooth had a particular influence on development in an aroon Kinker and Abyne Castle.[2]
In the 19t yearhunner the Deeside Railwey didnae gae throu the village, makin expaunsion difficult. Bi 1895 the population o the village exceedit 200.[3] Maist o the extant biggins wis biggt in the 19t yearhunner.[citation needit]
The village wis umwhile kent as Eaglais Iarach (Kirk o Saunt Iarchadh) in Scots Gaelic.[4]
The Esker Spirits distillery is based on the Kinker estate.[5]
Sister cities
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Thun-Saint-Martin, France
Line notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Kincardine O'Neil historical profile
- ↑ Hogan, 2007
- ↑ Mackintosh, 1895
- ↑ Mac an Tàilleir, Iain. "Ainmean-Àite - K-O" (PDF). The Scottish Parliament. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ↑ http://www.eskerspirits.com
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, ed A. Burnham [2]
- John Mackintosh, History of the Valley of the Dee, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1895, Taylor and Henderson, 240 pages
- Kincardine O'Neil historical profile