Advie

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Advie
Gaelic: Àbhaidh
Inverness-shire

Advie Church
Location
Grid reference: NJ125344
Location: 57°23’31"N, 3°27’24"W
Data
Post town: Grantown-On-Spey
Postcode: PH26
Dialling code: 01479
Local Government
Council: Highland

Advie is a small village in a detached part of Inverness-shire locally situate in Morayshire. It lies to the south of the River Spey, and next to the A95 road, roughly half-way between Grantown-on-Spey and Aberlour.

History

Although the ecclesiastical parish was combined in the sixteenth century, the village still has its own church and an old cemetery. A fragment of a Class I Pictish Stone - believed to have been found in the old burial ground - is now preserved in the vestry wall of the present church. Another building of note is The Manse, located nearby.

The village was served by Advie railway station, on the Strathspey Railway. The station opened in 1863, but closed, along with the rest of the line, in 1965.

The Manse
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