Belhelvie () is a small village and civil parish in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.Belhelvie. Gazetteer for Scotland. The parish has a population of 3,802,General Register Office for Scotland : Census 2001 : Usual Resident Population : KS01 : Belhelvie Civil Parish Retrieved 4 January 2010 of which 1,653 are in the village. The history of the parish is available online. The churchyard contains a notable example of a morthouse used against the activities of bodysnatchers in the early 19th century.
Notable people David Lindsay, minister of Belhelvie and prominent Covenanter (d. 1667) General Sir Peter Lumsden, born at Belhelvie Lodge, 1829Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Volume 65, Issue 261 - Volume 66, Issue 268 (1987), p. 230 General Sir Harry Lumsden Reverend Alexander John Forsyth, Inventor of the Percussion cap. George Stott (1835-1889), Christian missionary with the China Inland Mission Sir Frederick Stewart, FRS (1916-2001), studied local geology. Steve Murdoch, Professor of Scottish history at the University of St Andrews and co-author of Belhelvie: A Millennium of History (Belhelvie Community Council, 2001).
See also List of listed buildings in Belhelvie
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External links
Belhelvie - a Covenanting heartland? Belhelvie community site Belhelvie church and cemetery 2018 archive Belhelvie at Knowhere