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HUNTLY

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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police See also:burgh, burgh of See also:barony and See also:parish of See also:Aberdeenshire, See also:Scotland, See also:capital of the See also:district of Strathbogie. Pop. (1901) 4136. It lies at the confluence of the See also:rivers Deveron and See also:Bogie, 41 M. N.W. of See also:Aberdeen on the See also:Great See also:North of Scotland Railway. It is a See also:market See also:town and the centre of a large agricultural district, its See also:chief See also:industries including agricultural See also:implement-making, See also:hosiery See also:weaving, weaving of woollen See also:cloth, and the manufacture of lamps and boots. Huntly See also:Castle, See also:half a mile to the north, now in ruins, was once a fortalice of the Comyns. From them it passed in the 14th See also:century to the Gordons, by whom it was rebuilt. It was blown up in 1594, but was restored in 1602. It gradually See also:fell into disrepair, some of its stones being utilized in the See also:building of Huntly See also:Lodge, the See also:residence of the widow of the " last " See also:duke of See also:Gordon, who (in 1840) founded the adjoining Gordon See also:schools to his memory. The See also:Standing Stones of Strathbogie in Market Square have offered a permanent See also:puzzle to antiquaries.

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