0 an area of northeastern Scotland that was a county until 1975 and is now a council area (= an area with its own local government): --
A committee of Aberdeenshire council rejected the scheme, which was strongly backed by local business but opposed by conservationists.
In 1715 he landed at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, during the Jacobite rising.
Norman Halkett, a farmer's son, was born in 1910 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities.