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| | Historical perspective for Aboyne (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Surrounded by forest uplands, and skirting a large green, Aboyne is a pretty little place, possessing a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the North of Scotland Bank, a good hotel, a public library and reading-room, and a picturesque high-roofed school (1874). |
 | | The old mansion of Balnacraig has sunk to a farmhouse: but the house of Glentanner, 4½ miles WSW of the village, has risen from a shooting-box to a large two-winged mansion adorned with rustic work,stained glass, pine dados, panelled ceilings, and antique furnishings. |
 | | The mission church of Dinnet (minister's salary, £80) has 180 attendants: and the two public schools of Aboyne and Glentanner, with respective accommodation for 160 and 74 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 145 and 31, and grants of £131, 16s. |
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