Finzean (Scotland)

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Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
Finzean (Scotland)
Coordinates
-2.6293 -2.6293 57.0219 57.0219 (gooearth )
W0023759 W0023759 N0570116 N0570116 (geonames )
Associated country
Great Britain
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 124518719
Wikidata: Q5451002
Library of congress: n 98880023
Sources of Information
  • Memories of Finzean, 1997
  • Johnston's gaz. of Scotland, 1958:p. 97 (Finzean, pl. and seat, 3m. E.S.E. of Aboyne, Aberdeenshire)
Wikipedia description:

Finzean ( FING-ən; Scottish Gaelic: Fìnnean) is a rural community, electoral polling district, community council area and former ecclesiastical parish, which forms the southern part of the Parish of Birse, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Finzean was the subject of many well-known landscape paintings by the artist Joseph Farquharson, whose family have owned Finzean Estate (which occupies the eastern half of Finzean) since the 17th century. Finzean extends to approximately 8000 hectares in area and had a population of approximately 270 in 2002.

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