BUS TIMES CHANGED!!!! Sept 2015 Still 4 buses a day.
Bus to huntly: 8.17am, 11.17am, 14.17pm, 17.17pm.
It takes 20 mins to Huntly.
Bus back from Huntly: 9.55am, 12.55pm, 15.55pm, 17.42pm.
Bus to Alford: 10.14am, 13.14pm, 16.14pm, 18.01pm. Takes 20 mins.
Bus back to Rhynie from Alford: 7.50am, 10.55am, 13.55pm, 16.55pm
SATURDAY 2 buses each way
Bus to Huntly 10.17 and 14.17
Returns leaving Huntly at 11.55 and 14.55
Bus to Alford 12.14 and 15.14
NO buses on SUNDAY
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>>>>Rhynie historical website. Click on the picture to enter the Virtual Museum... or scroll down for current events
RHYNIE has its priorities in the right place!! 
While most places are making farms into golf courses, Rhynie made its golf course into a farm.
The old picture is from the wonderful book "Old Rhynie" on sale in the corner shop. £9
about 1920
The same place in 2014
A Query
Hello,My family and I are beginning to plan a trip to Scotland for next summer
and i want to find out a little information about Rhynie. My family is actually half scottish and i had a relative
that lived in Rhynie and owned a pub and inn there. I believe it was call the Rhynie Inn back then but i think a more recent name Scottish Arms
.Great grandfather Alexander G. Grant is my great grandfather who owned Richmond Arms in the early 1920's. He once lived in a nearby
castle but eventually wanted a place of his own, and bought the Inn. Hw was known as "The Grant". We are very excited to come visit. I've had a
really hard time tracking down information about this place and i wanted to reach out to someone in the town that might be able to tell me a little
about the place and if its still open or not. Any information or help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.....Della and Doug Mays
Please send any info to
"rhyniewebsite@gmail.com "
Gratitude!
This letter came to the editor...... Dear Rhynie8 Editor, It has been just over two months since our visit to Rhynie, from Australia, to find some places in my family's history. My great-great grandfather, Robert Milne, and his children (including my great grandfather, John Milne) grew up in Tonburn. His father, James Milne, and Robert's wife, Mary, nee Gall, are buried in the Essie burial ground. We were able to visit both of these places and meet some people who assisted us. We are very grateful to the kindness of the people of Rhynie, especially Mrs Thompson, who works at Morgan McVeigh's restaurant, on the A96 and lives at Belhinnie. Mrs Margaret Thompson at Belhinnie Croft and dear Lottie Coutts, who spent an hour or so one afternoon, sharing with us her memories of her youth in the western end of the parish. We are also very grateful for the assistance of the people at the corner shop, whose names I do not know, who helped us find Lottie''s house. Visiting Rhynie was a special experience for me, and even though I was born, grew up and have lived all of my working life in Australia, I now feel that I ''belong'' to the places I visited in your location. Could you please pass on my thanks and appreciation to those kind people that I have mentioned, for their friendliness and willing assistance? Best wishes for the coming festive season,J. David Milne
PS Thompsons are listed as living at Tonburn, in the 1841 census.
Art!
This watercolour of Rhynie from the south about 1915, painted by George Fall, was sold on Ebay Jan 2014, for £350http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141129069550?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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Did you know...'Rhynie' is the 191,173rd most popular child's name in USA !
Rhynie is 45miles inland from Aberdeen.
It's right on the line between two types of landscape: to the east of Rhynie is the farmland of Aberdeenshire; to the west are hills and
moorland and forestry.
It's been an important place at least since Pictish times: there are several carved stones believed
to be 1,300years old, and a mile to the north-west, on the Tap o' Noth (1849 feet) there is a strange old structure believed to be the
remains of a 'vitrified fort'
(there is also a Rhynie in Easter Ross , near Tain, and another in Australia)