Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563300
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/563300
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
