Port-Elphinstone, a southern suburb of Inverurie, in Kintore parish, Aberdeenshire, on the right bank of the river Don. It took its name, and during 1807-54 derived its importance, from being situated at the NW end of the quondam Aberdeen Canal; it now contains an extensive goods station of the Great North of Scotland railway, and is still a convenient centre of trade; and it has a post office under Inverurie, extensive grain mills, paper-mills, two saw-mills, a brewery, a nursery, a public school, and a public library. Pop. (1861) 421, (1871) 435, (1881) 473, of whom 356 were within Inverurie burgh.Ord. Sur., sh. 76, 1874.
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