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ABERCHIRDER, town, 9 miles south-by-west of Banff. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Banff; a banking office; Established, Free, United Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, and 2 public schools. Its Free church originated in the Marnoch contest, one of the sharpest which led to the Disruption, and is large and handsome. Pop. of the town, 1358.
