Population 116 Post town PERTH Local time Tuesday 12:45 PM | OS grid reference NO258312 Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district PH14 Dialling code 01828 | |
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Weather 7°C, Wind W at 13 km/h, 63% Humidity Scottish parliaments Perthshire North, Mid Scotland and Fife | ||
Abernyte is a small village in Perth and Kinross in Scotland.
Map of Abernyte, Perth, UK
The village lies roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the former Inchture railway station, and around 7 miles (11 km) west of Dundee.
The village has a heritage organisation, the Abernyte Heritage Group, which was formed in 1988. The group was formed by a mixture of longstanding residents and more recent arrivals to Abernyte and was part of a drive to maintain and celebrate the village's distinct local identity. The group undertook an oral history project in 1996 which is now held at the archives at the University of Dundee.
The history of Abernyte in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is documented in Abernyte: The Quiet Revolution which was written by Dr Mary Young and the Abernyte Heritage Group and published in 2008.
The Scottish Antique and Arts Centre lies around a quarter mile South of the village.
In 2001 the population was 106, and had risen to 116 in 2011.
The village has a small school with only 8 pupils and parish church which is part of the Abernyte linked with Inchture and Kinnaird linked with Longforgan grouping of churches.
A light aircraft crashed in poor visibility close to Abernyte in the early afternoon of the 3rd May, 2015. Both men on board died. The wreckage was found on a hilltop at Outfield Farm next to Pitmiddle Wood between Abernyte and Kinnaird. The 'plane had left Inverness airport heading for Dundee airport.