Abdie
| Abdie | |
| Fife | |
|---|---|
 The ruins of the old Abdie parish church, near the shore of Lindores Loch | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NO2567416666 |
| Location: | 56°20’11"N, 3°12’14"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 421 |
| Post town: | Cupar |
| Postcode: | KY14 |
| Dialling code: | 01337 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Fife |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North East Fife |
Abdie is a parish in north-west Fife, lying on the south shore of the Firth of Tay on the eastern outskirts of Newburgh. It extends about three miles eastwards to the boundary of Dunbog parish,[1] with which it is now united ecclesiastically [2] It is also bounded by Collessie on the south and has a small border with the parish of Moonzie in the south-east.[1]
The civil parish has a population of 421[3] and its area is 4,850 acres.[4]
The parish contains the hamlet of Lindores on the north side of Lindores Loch, which is four miles in circumference and lies near the centre of the parish.[1]
The present church was built in 1827, replacing the pre-reformation church, which still lies in ruins nearby. That church dated from 1242 and was an offshoot of Lindores Abbey, whose remains lie just outside Newburgh.[2][5] Abdie and Dunbog parishes became a united charge under one minister from December 1965, with the church building in Dunbog closing in 1983 upon the ecclesiastical parish of Abdie and Dunbog being linked with Newburgh. [2]
The parish seems originally to have had the name Lindores.[2][6] However, when Lindores Abbey was granted a charter in 1178, the monks kept the old name and thereafter called the parish Abdie (or Abden), meaning “the lands pertaining to the Abbey of God”.[2]
The parish was originally wider in extent and included the parish of Newburgh, but this was disjoined in 1633. Further in 1891 a detached portion of Abdie in the west was annexed to Newburgh, while another detached portion in the east was united to Dunbog, leaving the main portion as the present parish.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Abdie
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Church of Scotland web site for Abdie and Dunbog Parish www.abdiedunbog-newburgh.org.uk/about/abdie-and-dunbog-parish/ retrieved May 2016
- ↑ Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved March 2016. See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish
- ↑ Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Abdie. Places are presented alphabetically
- ↑ Third Statistical Account of Scotland, Fife volume,ed. A. Smith, publ. 1952; article on Abdie
- ↑ The New Statistical Account of Scotland by the Ministers of the Respective Parishes, Vol. IX Fife-Kinross. Publ. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1845; article on Abdie
