For much of its history Aberdour was two villages, Wester Aberdour and Easter Aberdour, on either side of the Dour Burn.

The main result was a growth in the building of large and attractive houses, especially down the hill from Wester Aberdour to the West Sands.

A fire in the late 17th century was followed by some repairs, but in 1725 the family purchased 17th century Aberdour House, on the west side of the burn and in Wester Aberdour, and the medieval Castle was allowed to fall into relative decay.

After a period of dereliction Aberdour House was developed for residential use in the early 1990s.

Aberdour was a 2005 finalist in the prestigious " Beautiful Scotland in Bloom " awards.

Council housing was focused towards Abbeyview, on a site on Aberdour Road ; Touch, to the south of Garvock Hill ; Bellyeoman and Baldridgeburn.

The royal burgh merged into Dunfermline District, which was one of three districts within the Fife region serving the town and West Fife from Kincardine to Aberdour.

Along with it, the title Lord Aberdour was granted.

Morton reached Brechin, in Angus, where he signed a deed resigning his lands to his kinsman Robert Douglas of Lochleven, who was then compelled to resign the lands in turn to James V. After James V's death in late 1542, George Douglas of Pittendreich and the Earl of Arran assisted Morton in reclaiming his lands, including Aberdour.

Brown suggests that the word means ‘ abode ’ or ‘ a settlement .’ In 1643, the Parish of Beath was separated from Dalgety Bay and Aberdour.

In January 1559 Arran was leading the war in Fife, writing reports to Ralph Sadler and Sir James Croft from Dysart, Wemyss, Cupar and Aberdour.

degree in August 1590, he became schoolmaster of Aberdour in Fife ; he was towards the close of December 1592 ordained minister of Carnock, in the presbytery of Dunfermline.

He was born near Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, the son of a small farmer.

Born at Aberdour House, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Dalhousie was the eldest son of Admiral George Ramsay, 12th Earl of Dalhousie, and Sarah Frances, daughter of William Robertson.

He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1947 and received as a Law lord a life peerage as Baron Normand, of Aberdour in the county of Fife, retiring in 1953.

Rouse Hill encompasses what was originally known as the Village of Aberdour along with the area originally known as Vinegar Hill following the convict rebellion of 1804.

The movie was set and filmed in Edinburgh and Aberdour.

East Aberdeenshire was defined by the 1868 legislation as consisting of the parishes of Aberdour, Belhelvie, Bourtie, Crimond, Cruden, Daviot, Ellon, Fintray, Foveran, Fraserburgh, Fyvie, Keith-hall and Kinkell, King-Edward, Logie-Buchan, Longside, Lonmay, Methlick, Montquhitter, New Deer, New Machar, Old Deer, Oldmeldrum, Peterhead, Pitsligo, Rathen, Slains, Strichen, Tarves, Turriff, Tyrie and Udny, together with the part of the parish of Old Machar lying east of the River Don, and the parish of St Fergus in Banffshire.

Wester Aberdour has the more ' olde worlde ' feel of the two, with the narrower through road more closely hemmed in by shops and hotels.

* John Douglas, Lord Aberdour ( born 1952 ), son and heir of the 21st Earl of Morton

* John Douglas, Master of Aberdour ( born 1986 ), son and heir of the Lord Aberdour

## Lord Aberdour, eldest son of the Earl of Morton

## Lord Aberdour, eldest son of the Earl of Morton

** Sholto Charles Douglas, Lord Aberdour ( 1878 – 1911 )

The heir apparent is the present holder's son John Stewart Sholto Douglas, Lord Aberdour ( b. 1952 )

: Other titles: Earl of Lennox ( 1579 ), Earl of Darnley ( 1581 ), Lord Darnley, Aubigny and Dalkeith ( 1579 ) and Lord Aubigny, Dalkeith, Torboltoun and Aberdour ( 1581 )

By the 4th earl's will, on the death of Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus in 1588, William Douglas succeeded to the earldom of Morton, which brought him additional lands and houses including Dalkeith Palace, Aberdour Castle, Auchterhouse and Drochil Castle.

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

Ticket inspectors on the train line through Aberdour were known for their sing song refrain: " Half an hour, Half an hour, Half an hour to Aberdour-tickets please.

Hawkcraig Road leads past St Fillan's Church and through Silversand Park, home to Aberdour Shinty Club, en route to the much better parking area on Hawkcraig.

The path starts at the Waterloo Memorial at the foot of the Brae and heads along the coast via Carlingnose and Port Laing, a cove with a sandy beach and steep wooded slopes, to Inverkeithing, on to Dalgety Bay and Aberdour, and through Kirkcaldy, the East Neuk villages and Fife Ness eventually as far as Newport-on-Tay.

Robert Douglas subsequently resigned the title to James V on 20 January 1542, withholding only Aberdour Castle.

However, in the 1850s the traffic changed dramatically, and Aberdour Harbour became a popular destination for pleasure steamers from Leith.

The railway came to Aberdour in 1890, with the building of the line east from the newly opened Forth Railway Bridge.

Another road leads coastwards from Easter Aberdour.

Aberdour has a very popular yearly festival, which runs from late July to early August and features musical events, shows, sporting events and children's events.

The island of Inchcolm, or Island ( Gaelic innis ) of Columba, a quarter of a mile from the shore, forms part of the parish of Aberdour.

A dough trough once used for leavening bread from Aberdour Castle, Fife, Scotland.

The island forms part of the parish of Aberdour, and lies a quarter of a mile from the shore.

He accompanied that saint when he visited Aberdour in Buchan, about 45 miles from Aberdeen.

Inchcolm lies in the Firth of Forth off the south coast of Fife opposite Braefoot Bay, east of the Forth Bridge, south of Aberdour, Fife, and north of the City of Edinburgh.