Abernyte is a village in Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of 32 council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas. Perth is the administrative centre...

 in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. The village lies roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the former Inchture

Inchture

Inchture is a village in Scotland on the A90 trunk road between Perth and Dundee on the northern side of the Firth of Tay. It is approximately nine miles from Dundee city centre and 13 miles from Perth centre...

 railway station, and around 7 miles (11.3 km) west of Dundee

Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

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The village has a heritage organisation, the Abenyte Heritage Group, which was formed in 1988. The history of Abernyte in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is documented in Abernyte: The Quite Revolution which was written by the late Dr Mary Young and the Abernyte Heritage Group and published in 2008.

External links

• Abernyte Community Website