Turriff
Turriff is a town and civil parish in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. It lies on the River Deveron, regarding 166 feet (51 m) over water level, and has a population of 5,708. In daily speech it is usually referred to by its Scots name, Turra, which is stemmed from the Scottish Gaelic enunciation. There are four churches in Turriff: St Ninian's (Church of Scotland), St Andrew's (Church of Scotland), St Congan's (Episcopal Church), as well as a Baptist church. Turriff has a primary school, Turriff Primary School and also a secondary school, Turriff Academy. Turriff Primary School is a new construct which replaced the old Markethill Primary School and available to pupils on 22 August 2017. People from the surrounding areas, consisting of the towns of Cuminestown, Fyvie as well as King Edward participate in the secondary school. Bank of Scotland, Santander UK (formerly Alliance & Leicester), Clydesdale Bank and also TSB have branches in the community. The primary grocery store chains are Tesco (whose properties have actually previously been inhabited by Presto, Gateway and Somerfield) and Co-op Food and there are numerous specialist shops including 2 dispensing pharmacies. The community has a library, a sports centre as well as swimming pool. It is offered by Turriff Cottage Hospital. In October 2013, Aberdeenshire Council accepted a licence to occupy the Municipal Building (previously made use of as council offices) to a volunteer group for usage as a general community centre, while they finished their Community Asset Transfer of the building. The group renamed the structure Turriff Town hall. The official handover was anticipated to be finished in 2016, however in June 2016 the group introduced that they had actually not been successful in their Phase 2 Community Asset Transfer. The team kept the permit to occupy till 28 October 2016, when the building was returned to Aberdeenshire Council. Turriff and District Heritage Society were approved a Community Asset Transfer of the building as well as relabelled it Turriff Heritage Centre.
