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Publication Account
Date 1977
Event ID 1018432
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018432
The Tolbooth until the last century was located near the site of the Kintore Arms Hotel. A Town House at Inverurie dates back to the seventeenth century when there is a sale recorded in 1642 of 100 merks of the 'eastmost' house of James Fergus which was to act as 'ane tolbuith' (Davidson, 1878, 349). That sale proved a bad investment for the burgh for by 1660 the magistrates were meeting in a 'chalmer' of one of the bailie's houses while awaiting the construction of a new Tolbooth (Davidson, 1878, 349). The 1660 Town House served the burgh until 1868 when it was pulled down to make way for the construction of a dwelling house at No. 81 High Street. A new Town House was subsequently built at the head of High Street in Market Place.
Information from ‘Historic Inverurie: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1977).
