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Aberdour

Aberdour is a small town on the coast of in central Scotland, and nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, with a population in 2011 of 1633.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Aberdour Castle and Inchcolm.

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is in the village of Easter Aberdour, , . Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdour one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland, along with in , which was built at around the same time.

Islet
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is an island in the in Scotland. The island has a long history as a site of religious worship, having started with a church, which later developed into a monastery and a large Augustine Abbey in the mid 13th century.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the village of Aberdour, , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burntisland and Dalgety Bay.

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is a port on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, in in central Scotland, with a population of 6600 in 2020. Its west side is industrial and formerly had ship-building, but its east is a small seaside resort and commuter town for Edinburgh.

Town
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is a coastal town and parish in , , on the north shore of the , nine miles from city centre. The civil parish is the eighth-largest in Fife, with a population of 9,710 in 2020. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Aberdour.

Village
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is a village in , Scotland. It is located close to the junction of the M90 and A92, about two miles east of and a similar distance south west of . is situated 3½ miles northwest of Aberdour.

Aberdour

Latitude
56.0537° or 56° 3′ 13″ north
Longitude
-3.302° or 3° 18′ 7″ west
Population
1,630
Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB AYD
Open location code
9C8R3M3X+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29338853
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2657829
Wiki­data ID
Q2014221
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Aberdour” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Aberdour”
  • Bulgarian: “Абердоур”
  • Catalan: “Aberdour”
  • Cebuano: “Aberdour”
  • Chinese: “阿伯杜尔”
  • Chinese: “阿伯杜爾”
  • Chinese: “阿伯道”
  • Chinese: “霍克克雷格”
  • Chinese: “霍剋剋雷格”
  • Danish: “Aberdour”
  • Dutch: “Aberdour”
  • Finnish: “Aberdour”
  • French: “Aberdour”
  • German: “Aberdour”
  • Greek: “Αμπερντέρ”
  • Hebrew: “אברדור”
  • Irish: “Obar Dhobhair”
  • Irish: “Obar Dobhair”
  • Italian: “Aberdour”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aberdour”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aberdour”
  • Norwegian: “Aberdour”
  • Portuguese: “Aberdour”
  • Romanian: “Aberdour”
  • Russian: “Абердор”
  • Scots: “Aiberdour”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aberdour”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Obar Dhobhair”
  • Slovenian: “Aberdour, Škotska”
  • Spanish: “Aberdour”
  • Swedish: “Aberdour”
  • Welsh: “Aberdour”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aberdour”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.