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Aviemore (Gael. abh-mor, ` great water '), a station on the Highland railway in Duthil parish, E Invernessshire, near the left bank of the Spey and at the base of Craigellachie, 12½ miles SW of Grantown. Here is a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments; and 3 furlongs to the N is Aviemore House.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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Feature Description: | "a station" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
Administrative units: | Inverness Shire ScoCnty |
Place names: | ABH MOR | AVIEMORE |
Place: | Aviemore |
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