Cairnie

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Cairnie
Gaelic: Càrnaidh
Aberdeenshire
St Martin's Kirk, Cairney.jpg
St Martin's Kirk
Location
Grid reference: NJ4844
Location: 57°28’48"N, 2°51’36"W
Data
Post town: Huntly
Postcode: AB54
Dialling code: 01466
Local Government
Council: Aberdeenshire

Cairnie, also written Cairney is a village and parish in western Aberdeenshire adjacent to the border with Banffshire. It is situated on the A96 road from Keith to Huntly, four miles north-west of the latter. It borders six other parishes, four of which are in Banffshire: Botriphnie to the west, Keith to the north-west, Grange to the north and Rothiemay to the north-east, Huntly in Aberdeenshire to the south and the Aberdeemshire portion of the parish of Glass to the south. The ancient parish additionally extends some 1,188 acres into Banffshire.

It has a primary school, Cairney Primary School.

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