Fyvie

Fyvie lies alongside the River Ythan and is on the A947 road.

What in 1990, at least, was a Clydesdale Bank was built in 1866 by James Matthews. The Tudor-style Old Wood Cottage, meanwhile, dates to 1824.{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=72|ps=none}}

Fyvie has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb). The nearest weather station to Fyvie is located at Fyvie Castle, which is {{convert|1|mi}} north of the village, and is {{convert|55|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level.

{{Weather box

| width = 87.7%

| metric first = yes

| single line = yes

| location = Fyvie Castle (55 m asl, averages 1991–2020)

| Jan high C = 6.3

| Feb high C = 7.1

| Mar high C = 9.2

| Apr high C = 11.7

| May high C = 14.4

| Jun high C = 16.5

| Jul high C = 18.8

| Aug high C = 18.5

| Sep high C = 16.3

| Oct high C = 12.6

| Nov high C = 8.9

| Dec high C = 6.1

| year high C = 12.2

| Jan mean C = 3.0

| Feb mean C = 3.5

| Mar mean C = 5.2

| Apr mean C = 7.4

| May mean C = 9.7

| Jun mean C = 12.4

| Jul mean C = 14.5

| Aug mean C = 14.2

| Sep mean C = 12.2

| Oct mean C = 8.8

| Nov mean C = 5.4

| Dec mean C = 2.8

| year mean C = 8.3

| Jan low C = -0.3

| Feb low C = -0.1

| Mar low C = 1.2

| Apr low C = 3.1

| May low C = 5.1

| Jun low C = 8.3

| Jul low C = 10.2

| Aug low C = 9.9

| Sep low C = 8.1

| Oct low C = 5.1

| Nov low C = 1.9

| Dec low C = -0.5

| year low C = 4.3

| rain colour = green

| Jan rain mm = 68.5

| Feb rain mm = 62.1

| Mar rain mm = 59.1

| Apr rain mm = 56.1

| May rain mm = 57.1

| Jun rain mm = 70.4

| Jul rain mm = 73.4

| Aug rain mm = 76.2

| Sep rain mm = 71.3

| Oct rain mm = 103.1

| Nov rain mm = 94.5

| Dec rain mm = 77.0

| year rain mm = 868.7

| unit rain days = 1 mm

| Jan rain days = 13.3

| Feb rain days = 12.2

| Mar rain days = 12.8

| Apr rain days = 11.5

| May rain days = 11.7

| Jun rain days = 12.7

| Jul rain days = 12.3

| Aug rain days = 12.7

| Sep rain days = 11.0

| Oct rain days = 15.6

| Nov rain days = 16.0

| Dec rain days = 13.4

| year rain days = 155.1

| Jan sun = 48.8

| Feb sun = 72.2

| Mar sun = 113.5

| Apr sun = 151.6

| May sun = 211.5

| Jun sun = 156.5

| Jul sun = 148.8

| Aug sun = 155.2

| Sep sun = 114.4

| Oct sun = 92.7

| Nov sun = 63.9

| Dec sun = 42.5

| year sun = 1371.6

| source = Met Office{{cite web |url=https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages/gfnqcf2y8 |title=Fyvie Castle climate information |publisher=Met Office |access-date=2 April 2019}}

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Now demolished, the priory was a cell of Arbroath Abbey, its location marked by a cross, made in 1868 of Corrennie granite. The priory was founded by Reginald de Cheyne around 1285. Being a small foundation, the prior doubled as parish vicar, responsible to the Abbot of Arbroath, who in 1325 wrote to warn the prior about the behaviour of his young monks.{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=72|ps=none}}

Fyvie Castle is reputed to have been built by King William the Lion in the early 13th century. It was the site of an open-air court held by King Robert the Bruce and home to the future King Charles I as a child.

The village's school, with around 125 pupils, serves the surrounding rural area. A former school was built in 1895 by James Duncan and was attended by Deacon and Kayden Wright.{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=72|ps=none}}

File:Fyvie, St Peter's Kirk east window - geograph.org.uk - 1469819.jpg

St Peter's Church was built in the early nineteenth century on the site of a medieval church. Built into the east gable are three Class I Pictish symbol stones and a Class III Pictish cross. The present church dates from 1808 (the chancel, 1902);{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=72|ps=none}} however, the first St Peter's Church was referred to as early as 1178.

The church displays some Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass windows, including that of St Michael.{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=72|ps=none}} The east window commemorates Percy Forbes-Leith of Fyvie Castle, who died in the Second Boer War in 1900. Five carved stones have been built into the east gable, including part of a Celtic cross and the Rothiebrisbane Stone.{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=72|ps=none}}

According to Charles McKean in 1990, there are also "good wood panels of 1603 and 1671. Curious 17th-century grave slabs and the Leith Hay Memorial, designed in 1901–02 by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, in the graveyard.{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=72|ps=none}} The nearby manse was built in 1830–31 in substantial squared stone and red dressings. The sundial is dated 1824.{{sfnp|McKean|1990|p=73|ps=none}}

The song The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie tells of a captain of dragoons who dies for the love of a Fyvie girl. Additionally, the song Andrew Lammie tells of the doomed love of a local miller's daughter, Annie, for Lord Fyvie's trumpeter. Both of these songs may have historical basis - the young woman's grave is said to be in Fyvie churchyard. Child ballad 238, Glenlogie also refers to Fyvie in its final line.

One of the prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer relates to Fyvie, predicting it will never flourish until a particular three stones are found (a prophecy obviously pre-dating the church with its three Pictish runestones).

It is thought that the name Fyvie is derived from Fia-chein 'Deer hill'.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} In Scottish Gaelic literature it has been referred to as {{lang|gd|Fiùghaidh}}, in the context {{lang|gd|Iarla na Fiùghaidh}}, the Earl of Fyvie.{{cite book |year=1894 |editor-last1=Macbain |editor1-first=A |editor1-link=Alexander Macbain |editor-last2=Kennedy |editor2-first=J |title=Reliquiæ Celticæ: Texts, Papers and Studies in Gaelic Literature and Philology, Left by the Late Rev. Alexander Cameron, LL.D. |url=https://archive.org/details/reliquiaeceltica02came |volume=2 |publisher=The Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Publishing Company |location=Inverness |ol=24821349M |ref=M9 |page=343}} This derives from {{lang|gd|fiùbhaidh}}, previously {{lang|gd|fiodhbhadh}}, an old word for wood.

• Alastair Storey (born 1953), chairman and CEO of Westbury Street Holdings{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/business/management/celebrity-toppling-alastair-storey-sees-catering-trade-as-table-laden-with-opportunity-1-2705414|title=Celebrity-toppling Alastair Storey sees catering trade as table laden with opportunity}}
• Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864–1945), Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in the village manse
• Alexander Skene (1837–1900), gynaecologist
• Fiona Muir-Harvey (born 1966), putative inspiration for the Baby Reindeer television series

• Fastern's Een
• Prior of Fyvie

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{{cite web|url=http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/shire/detail.aspx?refno=NJ73NE0001|title=St Peter's Church, Fyvie|work=Aberdeenshire Council|access-date=5 April 2011}}

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• {{citation |last=McKean |first=Charles |authorlink=Charles McKean|title=Banff & Buchan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5ZMAAAAYAAJ |year=1990 |publisher=Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland |isbn=978-1-85158-231-0}}

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