New Aberdour

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New Aberdour
Gaelic: Obar Dobhair
Aberdeenshire

Aberdour Bay north of New Aberdour, looking east
Location
Location: 57°39’32"N, 2°12’43"W
Data
Post town: Fraserburgh
Postcode: AB43
Dialling code: 01346
Local Government
Council: Aberdeenshire

New Aberdour is a small 19th-century planned village in the parish of Aberdour, Aberdeenshire. It lies just south of the North Sea coast, seven miles west of Fraserburgh on the B9031 road between Pennan and Rosehearty.

One of the earliest churches in Scotland, is said to have been founded here in AD 580 by SS Drostan and Columba.

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