Aberdour

Aberdour, a village in Fife, Scotland, lies on the shore of the Firth of Forth, 17.5 miles north-west of Edinburgh by the railway and 7 miles north-west of Leith by boat. It features excellent sea-bathing.

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Aberdour has ruins of a castle and an old decayed church, which contains some fine Norman work. About 3 miles south-west of Aberdour stands Donibristle House, the seat of the Earl of Moray, and the scene of the murder (7 February 1592) of one earl, remembered in the ballad The Bonny Earl of Murray.

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Firth of Forth: The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh, and East Lothian to the south. The river is tidal as far inland as Stirling, but generally it is considered that the inland exte...