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Cookney, a quoad sacra parish in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire, 5½ miles N by W of its post-town Stonehaven, and 2½ WNW of Muchalls station. Its church was built about 1817 as a chapel of ease, and contains 700 sittings; and a public school, with accommodation for 99 children, had (1880) an average attendance of 70 and a grant of £39,9s. The parish is in the presbytery of Fordun and synod of Angus and Mearns; its minister's stipend is £120. Pop. (1861) 1952, (1871) 2080, (1881) 1976.—Ord. Sur., sh. 67,1871.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a quoad sacra parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Kincardineshire County |
| Place: | Cookney |
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