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"Dexys Midnight Runner musician returns to Portsoy"
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Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Portsoy
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4)
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Portsoy ( gd, Port Saoidh) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Historically, Portsoy was in Banffshire. The original name may come from ''Port Saoithe'', meaning "saithe harbour". Portsoy is located on the Moray Firth coast of northeast Scotland, northwest of
Portsoy became a
period dramas ''The Camerons'', ''The Shutter Falls'' and ''Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
and east of Inverness. It had a population of 1,752 at the time of the 2011 census.
History
Portsoy became a burgh of barony
A burgh of barony was a type of Scottish town ( burgh).
Burghs of barony were distinct from royal burghs, as the title was granted to a landowner who, as a tenant-in-chief, held his estates directly from the crown. (In some cases, they might also ...
in 1550, under Sir Walter Ogilvie of Boyne Castle
Boyne Castle (also known as the Palace of Boyne) is a 16th-century quadrangular castle about east of Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, south of Boyne Bay.Coventry, Martin (2001). ''The Castles of Scotland''. Musselburgh: Goblinshead. p. 87
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, and the charter was confirmed by parliament in 1581.
From the 16th century until 1975, Portsoy was in the civil and religious parish of Fordyce. It lost its status as a burgh in 1975 and became a part of the District of Banff And Buchan. In 1996, administration was transferred to the Aberdeenshire council area.
The "old harbour" dates to the 17th century and is the oldest on the Moray Firth. The "new harbour" was built in 1825 for the growing herring fishery, which at its peak reached 57 boats. The Old Town Hall
Old or OLD may refer to:
Places
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*Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD)
*OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, ...
in The Square was completed in 1798.
Economy
Portsoy is known for localjewellery
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made from "Portsoy marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphose ...
" (which is not marble, but rather serpentinite
Serpentinite is a rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals, the name originating from the similarity of the texture of the rock to that of the skin of a snake. Serpentinite has been called ''serpentine'' or ''se ...
). The annual Scottish Traditional Boat Festival was started in 1993 to celebrate the 300th year of the harbour.
In popular culture
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The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1910s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to middle-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, rack ...
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The Scotsman
''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its pare ...
'', 9 February 2021 and a Tennent's Lager advert parodying the 1949 film '' Whisky Galore!''. It was also the principal location for Gillies MacKinnon's film '' Whisky Galore!'', a 2016 remake of the 1949 film; Portsoy represented the fictional island of Todday.
Transport
Portsoy railway station
Portsoy railway station was a railway station in Portsoy, in current day Aberdeenshire. Opened in 1859 by the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway, it was absorbed by the Great North of Scotland Railway in 1867. The original terminus closed i ...
was formerly the terminus of the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway
The Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway was a Scottish railway company that connected the Aberdeenshire ports of Banff and Portsoy with the main line of the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) main line at Grange, a place some distance ...
branch of the Great North of Scotland Railway
The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the north-east of the country. Formed in 1845, it carried its first passengers the fro ...
system.''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland''Frances Hindes Groome (1901), p. 1350
Notable people
*Jimmy MacBeath
Jimmy MacBeath (1894–1972) was a Scottish Traveller and Traditional singer of the Bothy Ballads from the north east of Scotland. He was both a mentor and source for fellow singers during the mid 20th century British folk revival. He had a hug ...
, the wandering singer, was born in Portsoy and is buried there
* William Boyd, Canadian pathologist and medical textbook writer, was born in Portsoy
* Eoin Jess
Eoin Jess (born 13 December 1970) is a Scottish football coach and former player.
As a player he was an attacking midfielder who notably played in the Premier League for Coventry City and Bradford City, and in the Scottish Premier League for A ...
, the former Aberdeen and Scotland footballer, was born in Portsoy
* Jim Paterson, trombonist with Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their former nickname, styled without an apostrophe) are an English pop rock band from Birmingham, with soul influences, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid-1980s. They a ...
, was born and raised in Portsoy– '' The Press and Journal'', 15 June 2016
References
Further reading
Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Portsoy
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4)
External links
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