Foveran

Foveran Gaelic: Fobharan
Aberdeenshire
Location
Grid reference:	NJ980232
Location:	57°18’18"N, 2°2’46"W
Data
Post town:	Ellon
Postcode:	AB41
Dialling code:	01358
Local Government
Council:	Aberdeenshire
Parliamentary constituency:	Gordon

Foveran is a village and parish in eastern Aberdeenshire, located 11 miles north of Aberdeen and four miles south-east of Ellon. The main group of houses and the village school are located adjacent to the main A90 trunk road.

The hereditary baronetcy of Foveran is held by the Turing family. The cryptographer and computing pioneer Alan Turing (1912–1954) was uncle to the present Baronet, Sir John Dermot Turing.

Foveran Cemetery, east of the village

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