Abernyte


Parish: Abernyte

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NO 2585 3120

Lat / long: 56.46718793, -3.204435559

Current versions

    Abernyte Burn
    Abernyte House
    Milton of Abernyte

Earlier versions

    Abernuyt (1388)
    Abirnyte (1415)
    Aberneit (1664)

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

Abernyte is a village and parish 14km W of Dundee and 18km NE of Perth.

"There is a parish record declaring: "December 4 1664, the whilk day Mr. Andrew Shippert was admitted minister of Aberneit, by Mr. Robert White, minister at Instur, being authorized by my Lord Bishop of Dunkelden to that effect. Collected that day 7 shillings two pennies."" (Tranter, N 1971)

References (books):

  • The Queen's Scotland - Heartland of Scotland
  • Nigel Tranter
  • London, 1971

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    created Saturday, November 12th, 2011 at 5:55 pm, last updated Saturday, November 12th, 2011 at 5:55 pm