11-521: Rhynie may refer to: Rhynie, Aberdeenshire , a village in Scotland Rhynie chert , a sedimentary deposit located near the town Rhynie, South Australia See also [ edit ] Rynie , a village in Poland [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
22-518: A 20-year-old replica. Alford Golf Club opened on 15 May 1981. Initially a nine-hole course, it reopened as an eighteen-hole course in May 1992. Alford railway station was the former terminus of the closed Alford Valley Railway branch line. There is a bus service connecting with Aberdeen , approximately 26 miles (42 km) away. There is much new housebuilding going on in Alford as of 2006 to cater for
33-603: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alford, Aberdeenshire Alford (pronounced / ˈ ɑː f ər d / Scots : Aaford or Awfort , Scottish Gaelic : Athfort ) is a large village in Aberdeenshire , north-east Scotland , lying just south of the River Don . It lies within the Howe of Alford (also called the Vale of Alford) which occupies
44-557: Is a village in Aberdeenshire , Scotland. It is on the A97 road , 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Alford . The Rhynie Chert is named after the village, as is the fossil plant genus Rhynia . The Rhynie Chert is a sediment deposited in the Devonian period, contained important fossils that shows land ecosystem of the Devonian. The missionary, teacher and chocolatier Alexander Murdoch Mackay
55-503: The 231 service between Alford and Huntly . It was previously served by the 416 to Inverurie , but this route was withdrawn in 2021. A bothy ballad alludes to Rhynie thus: "at Rhynie I shure my first hairst." The Station Hotel at Rhynie is mentioned in the sketch "The Will" by Scotland the What , the joke being that there is no railway station at Rhynie, "...but they were aye hopin' for one." This Aberdeenshire location article
66-443: The cattle was Buffal, located between Tough (Tulloch) and Craigievar nearby Alford. The Alford Valley Railway , Grampian Transport Museum , Alford Heritage Museum and Craigievar Castle are visitor attractions , with a range of other archaeological sites, stone circles, and castles (including Balfluig Castle, Castle Fraser and Drum Castle ) also nearby. One stone circle, originally believed to be prehistoric, turned out to be
77-631: The middle reaches of the River Don. The "L" sound in the place-name has, over time, been dropped, and is silent. Alford gave its name to a battle of the Battle of Alford (1645). It is also the home of the Aberdeen Angus cattle breed, which is celebrated by a life-sized model of a bull on the edge of the village, which the Queen Mother inaugurated in 2001. It is believed that the original breeding ground of
88-412: The post-Roman period, and indicates that the inhabitants of the settlement would have been of high status. Archaeologists working at the excavation have speculated that the settlement may have been a royal site occupied by Pictish kings . It has been suggested that Rhynie may have been a centre for royal assemblies between the sixth and eighth centuries. The village is served once a day on weekdays by
99-527: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhynie&oldid=933085025 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rhynie, Aberdeenshire Rhynie ( / ˈ r aɪ n i / ) ( Scottish Gaelic : Roinnidh )
110-472: The site of the " Rhynie Man ", by archaeologists from Aberdeen University and Chester University uncovered a substantial fortified settlement dating to the early medieval period. Among the finds at the site were fragments of a late 5th- or 6th-century Roman amphora that must have been imported from the Mediterranean region. This is the only known example of a Roman amphora from Eastern Britain dating to
121-722: Was born in Rhynie on 13 October 1849. The name Rhynie may involve an early Pictish rīg meaning "a king" (c.f. Gaelic ríg/rí ; c.f. Welsh rhi ). Eight Pictish symbol stones have been found at Rhynie, including the "Rhynie Man", a 6-foot (1.8 m) tall boulder carved with a bearded man carrying an axe, possibly a representation of the Celtic god Esus , that was discovered in 1978. The "Rhynie Man" now stands inside Woodhill House (the headquarters of Aberdeenshire Council ) in Aberdeen . In 2011 archaeological excavations at Rhynie, near
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