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ABOYNE, village and parish in Deeside district, Aberdeenshire. The village stands on the Dee, 32^ miles west-south-west of Aberdeen ; it has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Aberdeen, a railway station, a 1 milking office, an inn, a suspension bridge, an Established church of 1842, a Free church, and a public school with about 164 scholars, and it gives the titles of baron, viscount, and earl to the Marquis of Huntly. Pop. about 200. The present parish comprises the old parishes of Aboyne and Glentanner, and extends from Coull to Kincardineshire. Acres, 25,265. Real property in 1880-81, 8005. Pop. 1427. About one-tenth of the land is arable, a considerable aggregate is under wood, and the rest is pastoral or heathy hill and mountain. Aboyne Castle, the seat of the Marquis of Huntly, stands near the village, and is an imposing edifice of dates from llth century till recent years. There are 3 public schools for 318 scholars, and one of them, for 160, is new.
