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ABDIE, parish, containing Mount Pleasant suburb of Newburgh, Fife. Acres, 6371. Real property in 1880-81, 10,439. Pop., quoad civilia, 983; quoad sacra, 862. The land includes a rich alluvial tract on the Tay, but is mostly a fine diversity of hill and dale. Chief features are Clatchard Crag, Norman's Law, Inchrye House, Lindores House, loch, and village, and vestiges of a castle said to have belonged to Macduff. The church contains about 500 sittings, and the public school has places for 159 scholars.
