Gartly

Human settlement in Scotland

Aberdeenshire

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Aberdeenshire

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West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

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Aberdeenshire West

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57°22′43″N 2°47′51″W / 57.3787°N 2.7974°W / 57.3787; -2.7974

Gartly (Scots: Gairtlie,^[1] Scottish Gaelic: Gartaidh) is an inland hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is several miles south of the town of Huntly, and sits on the River Bogie,^[2] a tributary of the River Deveron. The parish in which it is located also takes its name.

Education

Pupils are zoned to attend Gartly Primary School and The Gordon Schools in Huntly.^[3]

History

Gartly Castle, visited by Mary, Queen of Scots prior to the Battle of Corrichie in 1562, lay south west of the village.^[4]

In June 1620 George Mitchell went to church at Gartly to hear the Sunday sermon. He was assaulted by three enemies who chased him out of the church, and he got into the flooded River Bogie to try to escape. His pursuers followed him into the water and drew their swords, injuring him in the face and elsewhere, before carrying him back to the Kirk of Gartly.^[5]

Sources

^ "The Online Scots Dictionary". Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
^ Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (60 ed.). Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. June 1798. p. 397. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
^ "Gartly School". gartly.aberdeenshire.sch.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
^ Coventry, Martin (1997) The Castles of Scotland. Goblinshead. ISBN 1-899874-10-0 p.187
^ Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1895), p. 383.

Gartly in the Gazetteer for Scotland.

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