TURRIFF
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V27,
Page 483
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
TURRIFF
, a municipal and police burgh of Aberdeenshire, Scotland
.
Pop
.
(1901), 2273
.
It lies near the Deveron, 38 m
.
N.W. of Aberdeen by the Great North of Scotland railway, via Inveramsay
.
In the choir of the ancient See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, now in ruins, is a fresco painting of St Ninian
.
On the 14th of May 1639 the national struggle for civil and religious liberty was inaugurated in the county with the skirmish known as the Trot of Turriff
.
Some 4 M. south are the remains of the castle of Towie Barclay, the seat of the old family of the Barclays
.
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