HUNTLY  , a

police burgh, burgh of barony and parish of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, capital of the district of Strathbogie . Pop . (1901) 4136 . It lies at the confluence of the rivers Deveron and Bogie, 41 M . N.W. of Aberdeen on the Great North of Scotland Railway . It is a market town and the centre of a large agricultural district, its chief industries including agricultural implement-making, hosiery weaving, weaving of woollen cloth, and the manufacture of lamps and boots . Huntly Castle, half a mile to the north, now in ruins, was once a fortalice of the Comyns . From them it passed in the 14th century to the Gordons, by whom it was rebuilt . It was blown up in 1594, but was restored in 1602 . It gradually fell into disrepair, some of its stones being utilized in the building of Huntly Lodge, the residence of the widow of the " last " duke of Gordon, who (in 1840) founded the adjoining Gordon schools to his memory . The Standing Stones of Strathbogie in Market Square have offered a permanent puzzle to antiquaries .