Old photograph of cottages on the High Street in Auchinblae, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This village in the Kincardine and Mearns area is featured in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel, Sunset Song. The name is a derivation from the Gaelic for " Field of Flowers " possibly due to the growing of flax in bygone times. The village was known for its weavers, a whisky distillery and the annual Paldie's Fair horse market. In the graveyard is the ancient ruin of St Palladius' Chapel and there is a memorial to Scotland's first Protestant martyr George Wishart, born at Mains of Pittarrow in the old parish of Fordoun and burnt at the stake under the orders of Cardinal Beaton in St Andrews, Fife.
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