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Auchterderran is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.1400°, -3.2700°.

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Auchterderran

Auchterderran in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Auchterderran is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Auchterderran () is a village in Fife, Scotland. It is sometimes thought as part of the larger village, Cardenden, although Cardenden is part of the parish of Auchterderran. The name derives from Scottish Gaelic, although the first element, urchan, is obsolete in modern Gaelic and obscure. The second element, deòradh, means "a person charged with the safe-keeping of a saintly relic".

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The church of Auchterderran is first mentioned in the second half of the eleventh century, in connection with the monastery of St Serf's in Loch Leven. It relates that Fothad, son of Malmichel, bishop of St Andrews from c.1053 to 1093, granted the church of Auchterderran to St Serf and the community of Culdees at Loch Leven. Secular lands are mentioned in the 1150s, when half of the estate of Auchterderran was given over the Priory of St Andrews. This meant that the right to appoint a rector (the right to advowson) was held by a local landholding family. A dispute arose arose in the case of Auchterderran, between the local families of the Livingstons and the Boswells. A settlement by the…

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