{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name = Abdie | country = Scotland | population = 421 | population_ref = (2011 Census) | os_grid_reference = NO2567416666 | coordinates = {{coord|56.3365|-3.2038|region:GB|display=inline,title}} | post_town = CUPAR | postcode_area = KY | postcode_district = KY14 | dial_code = 01337 | constituency_westminster = North East Fife | unitary_scotland = Fife | lieutenancy_scotland = Fife | constituency_scottish_parliament = North East Fife }} '''Abdie''' is a parish in north-west Fife, Scotland, lying on the south shore of the Firth of Tay on the eastern outskirts of Newburgh, extending about 3 miles eastwards to the boundary of Dunbog parish,<ref name="groome">Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Abdie</ref> with which it is now united ecclesiastically<ref name="church">Church of Scotland web site for Abdie and Dunbog Parish www.abdiedunbog-newburgh.org.uk/about/abdie-and-dunbog-parish/ retrieved May 2016</ref> and for the Community Council.<ref>Fife Community Council web site showing Abdie and Dunbog community council area www.fifedirect.org.uk/CommunityCouncils retrieved May 2016</ref> It is also bounded by Collessie on the south and has a small border with the parish of Moonzie in the south-east.<ref name="groome"/><ref name="OS1901">Ordnance Survey 1 inch to 1 mile Sheet 48 Perth, publication date 1901 available from National Library of Scotland maps.nls.uk as at May 2016</ref> 250px|left|thumb|The ruins of the old Abdie parish church, near the shore of Lindores Loch
The civil parish had a population of 421 at the 2011 Census<ref name= "KS101SC">Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usual Resident Population, published by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved March 2016. See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930</ref> and its area is 4850 acres.<ref name= "Johnston">Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Abdie. Places are presented alphabetically</ref>
The parish contains the hamlet of Lindores on the north side of Lindores Loch, which is 4 miles in circumference and lies near the centre of the parish.<ref name="groome"/>
The present church was built in 1826/27, to a design by William Burn,<ref>Buildings of Scotland: Fife by John Gifford</ref> replacing the pre-reformation church, St Macgridin's, which stands as a ruin nearby. That church was consecrated by Bishop David de Bernham in 1242 and in pre-Reformation days was controlled by Lindores Abbey, whose remains lie just outside Newburgh.<ref name="church"/><ref name="statAcc3">Third Statistical Account of Scotland, Fife volume, ed. A. Smith, publ. 1952; article on Abdie</ref> The old church was abandoned on 11.11.1827 when the new church was consecrated. the church bell (dated 1671) was moved to the new church at this date.<ref>Pre Reformation Churches in Fifeshire by J Russell Walker</ref> Abdie and Dunbog parishes became a united charge under one minister from December 1965, with the church building in Dunbog closing in 1983 upon the ecclesiastical parish of Abdie and Dunbog being linked with Newburgh.<ref name="church"/>
The parish seems originally to have had the name Lindores.<ref name="church"/><ref name="statAcc">The New Statistical Account of Scotland by the Ministers of the Respective Parishes, Vol. IX Fife-Kinross. Publ. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1845; article on Abdie</ref> However, when Lindores Abbey was granted a charter in 1178, the monks kept the old name and thereafter called the parish Abdie (or Abden), from the Gaelic, ''apainn'' (earlier ''apdaine''), meaning "abbacy; abbey land".<ref name="church"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Abdie |url=https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=2354 |website=Fife Place-name Data |accessdate=22 May 2020}}</ref>
The parish was originally wider in extent and included the parish of Newburgh, but this was disjoined in 1633. Further in 1891 a detached portion of Abdie in the west was annexed to Newburgh, while another detached portion in the east was united with Dunbog, leaving the main portion as the present parish.<ref name="groome"/>
In September 1598 James VI came to Abdie to arrest John Arnot, Goodman of Woodmill, for the murder of John Murray, a servant of Lord Lindores.<ref>John Duncan Mackie, ''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 13 part 1 (Edinburgh, 1969), pp. 297, 323.</ref>
==Notable residents== *Ninian Imrie {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE}} (d. 1820) a soldier and geologist owned the Denmuir estate between Abdie and Dunbog *The poet brothers Alexander Bethune and John Bethune (1812–1839)
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Category:Parishes in Fife