Auchterderran
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Auchterderran
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![]() Mining Memorial, Auchterderran | |
Location within Fife | |
OS grid reference | NT2195 |
Council area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LOCHGELLY |
Dialling code | 01592 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
Auchterderran (Fife, Scotland.[1][2] It is sometimes thought as part of the larger village, Cardenden, although Cardenden is part of the parish of Auchterderran.
) is a village inThe name derives from Scottish Gaelic, although the first element, urchan, is obsolete in modern Gaelic and obscure. The second element, deòradh, means "a person charged with the safe-keeping of a saintly relic".[3]
Church
A church existed here since Pre-Reformation times. The current church dates from 1789 and was extended in 1891.[4]
Notable residents
- Dr Thomas Goodall Nasmyth FRSE MOH born here in 1855.
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 58 Perth & Alloa (Auchterarder) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319229972.
- ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "Auchterderran". Fife Place-name Data.
- ^ Gifford, John (1988). Fife. London: Penguin. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-300-09673-6.
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