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TURRIFF

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURRIFF  , a municipal and

police burgh of
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Aberdeenshire, Scotland . Pop . (1901), 2273 . It lies near the Deveron, 38 m . N.W. of Aberdeen by the
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Great North of Scotland railway, via Inveramsay . In the choir of the ancient church, now in ruins, is a fresco
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painting of St
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Ninian . On the 14th of May 1639 the
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national struggle for
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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
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family of the Barclays .

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