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Fyvie
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 Pictish stones set into the wall of Fyvie Kirk | |
  Fyvie Location withinAberdeenshire | |
| OS grid reference | NJ767377 |
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| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | TURRIFF |
| Postcode district | AB53 |
| Dialling code | 01651 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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| 57°25′47″N2°23′20″W / 57.429806°N 2.3889999°W /57.429806; -2.3889999 | |
Fyvie is a village in theFormartine area ofAberdeenshire, Scotland.
Fyvie lies alongside theRiver Ythan and is on theA947 road.
What in 1990, at least, was aClydesdale Bank was built in 1866 byJames Matthews. TheTudor-style Old Wood Cottage, meanwhile, dates to 1824.[1]
Fyvie has anoceanic climate (Köppen:Cfb). The nearest weather station to Fyvie is located atFyvie Castle, which is 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) north of the village, and is 55 metres (180 feet)above sea level.
| Climate data for Fyvie Castle (55 m asl, averages 1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) | 16.8 (62.2) | 22.8 (73.0) | 24.7 (76.5) | 25.4 (77.7) | 27.8 (82.0) | 28.9 (84.0) | 29.2 (84.6) | 28.3 (82.9) | 22.0 (71.6) | 18.0 (64.4) | 15.6 (60.1) | 29.2 (84.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) | 7.1 (44.8) | 9.2 (48.6) | 11.7 (53.1) | 14.4 (57.9) | 16.5 (61.7) | 18.8 (65.8) | 18.5 (65.3) | 16.3 (61.3) | 12.6 (54.7) | 8.9 (48.0) | 6.1 (43.0) | 12.2 (54.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.0 (37.4) | 3.5 (38.3) | 5.2 (41.4) | 7.4 (45.3) | 9.7 (49.5) | 12.4 (54.3) | 14.5 (58.1) | 14.2 (57.6) | 12.2 (54.0) | 8.8 (47.8) | 5.4 (41.7) | 2.8 (37.0) | 8.3 (46.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.3 (31.5) | −0.1 (31.8) | 1.2 (34.2) | 3.1 (37.6) | 5.1 (41.2) | 8.3 (46.9) | 10.2 (50.4) | 9.9 (49.8) | 8.1 (46.6) | 5.1 (41.2) | 1.9 (35.4) | −0.5 (31.1) | 4.3 (39.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −21.0 (−5.8) | −20.0 (−4.0) | −14.3 (6.3) | −7.2 (19.0) | −5.5 (22.1) | −2.5 (27.5) | −1.1 (30.0) | 0.0 (32.0) | −4.0 (24.8) | −5.5 (22.1) | −12.5 (9.5) | −25.3 (−13.5) | −25.3 (−13.5) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 68.5 (2.70) | 62.1 (2.44) | 59.1 (2.33) | 56.1 (2.21) | 57.1 (2.25) | 70.4 (2.77) | 73.4 (2.89) | 76.2 (3.00) | 71.3 (2.81) | 103.1 (4.06) | 94.5 (3.72) | 77.0 (3.03) | 868.7 (34.20) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 13.3 | 12.2 | 12.8 | 11.5 | 11.7 | 12.7 | 12.3 | 12.7 | 11.0 | 15.6 | 16.0 | 13.4 | 155.1 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 48.8 | 72.2 | 113.5 | 151.6 | 211.5 | 156.5 | 148.8 | 155.2 | 114.4 | 92.7 | 63.9 | 42.5 | 1,371.6 |
| Source 1:Met Office[2] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Starlings Roost Weather[3] | |||||||||||||
Now demolished, the priory was a cell ofArbroath Abbey, its location marked by a cross, made in 1868 ofCorrennie granite. The priory was founded byReginald de Cheyne around 1285. Being a small foundation, theprior doubled as parishvicar, responsible to theAbbot of Arbroath, who in 1325 wrote to warn the prior about the behaviour of his young monks.[1]
Fyvie Castle is reputed to have been built by KingWilliam the Lion in the early 13th century. It was the site of an open-air court held by KingRobert the Bruce and home to the future KingCharles I as a child.
The village's school, with around 125 pupils, serves the surrounding rural area. A former school was built in 1895 by James Duncan and was attended by Deacon and Kayden Wright.[1]
St Peter's Church was built in the early nineteenth century on the site of a medieval church. Built into the east gable are three Class IPictish symbol stones and a Class III Pictish cross.[4] The present church dates from 1808 (thechancel, 1902);[1] however, the first St Peter's Church was referred to as early as 1178.
The church displays someLouis Comfort Tiffany stained glass windows, including that ofSt Michael.[1] The east window commemorates Percy Forbes-Leith of Fyvie Castle, who died in theSecond Boer War in 1900. Five carved stones have been built into the east gable, including part of aCeltic cross and the Rothiebrisbane Stone.[1]
According toCharles McKean in 1990, there are also "good wood panels of 1603 and 1671. Curious 17th-century grave slabs and the Leith Hay Memorial, designed in 1901–02 byAlexander Marshall Mackenzie, in the graveyard.[1] The nearbymanse was built in 1830–31 in substantial squared stone and red dressings. Thesundial is dated 1824.[5]
The songThe Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie tells of a captain of dragoons who dies for the love of a Fyvie girl. Additionally, the songAndrew Lammie tells of the doomed love of a local miller's daughter, Annie, for Lord Fyvie's trumpeter. Both of these songs may have historical basis - the young woman's grave is said to be in Fyvie churchyard.Child ballad 238,Glenlogie also refers to Fyvie in its final line.
One of theprophecies of Thomas the Rhymer relates to Fyvie, predicting it will never flourish until a particular three stones are found (a prophecy obviously pre-dating thechurch with its three Pictish runestones).
It is thought that the name Fyvie is derived fromFia-chein 'Deer hill'.[citation needed] InScottish Gaelic literature it has been referred to asFiùghaidh, in the contextIarla na Fiùghaidh, the Earl of Fyvie.[6] This derives fromfiùbhaidh, previouslyfiodhbhadh, an old word forwood.
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