An old photograph of a shop and cottages on Williams Street in Torphins,a village in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, about twenty miles west of Aberdeen. It is about six miles north west of Banchory, and was once served by the Great North of Scotland Railway. The name Torphins may come from the Gaelic Torr Fionn, meaning fair or white hill, or as a corruption of Tor Feithachan, meaning hill of the bogs. Another namesake is Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney, who might have passed through the area due to his partnership with Macbeth. It appeared on maps in 1750 under the name Turfins
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