Old photograph of Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village has limited local resources. It once had a railway station, and now has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles away and to Huntly. The area is popular with commuters to Inverurie, Huntly and Aberdeen, a journey of around 30 minutes. The area has a number of large private houses such as Westhall House, which was a small hotel until the 1990s. The Horn family were lairds of Westhall.
The Huntly surname of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, England, and Berwick, and Aberdeen in Scotland. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hunta ", a hunter, and " leah ", a wood or clearing in a wood.
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