Alves, Moray
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Alves is a village in Moray
, Scotland
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(to the west) and Elgin
(to the east). James McLeman is the acting head teacher of the local Alves Primary School, that educates around 28 pupils!(2010) The local pub and restaurant is The Crooked Inn. Recently there has been a small housing development on the corner of the road leading south out of the village. Just down this road is Royal Alves, comprising the disused railway station and cottages. The dismantled railway (now a sort of ditch) is crossed by a small weak stone bridge. This hamlet is named after the use of this station and some local buildings by the British Royal Family
, as Alves was the nearest railway stop to Gordonstoun School and was close to other Royal Estates in Moray. The hamlets of Garrowslack and Hillside are further southeast and are made up of isolated farms and houses.
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The village cemetery, or kirkyard, is still located at this church. A recent survey by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group found a buried stone dated 1571, one of the earliest found by the group so far. The new South Church was built in 1878 as a Free Church and remains used to this day as part of the Presbytery of Moray. Services are held at 11.30 am on the first Sunday of the month. The bell in the South Church is actually the one removed from the old North Church after it closed.
In the early 1990s Alves competed with the very best Primary School Football teams in Morayshire, despite having comparatively few pupils. In 1994 the School won the small schools league, while the previous year had reached the final of the Morayshire schools final played in Forres, losing out on penalties to Applegrove.
Moray
Moray is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.- History :...
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Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
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Geography
The A96 runs east to west across Alves and connects the village to the nearest towns of ForresForres
Forres , is a town and former royal burgh situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 30 miles east of Inverness. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions...
(to the west) and Elgin
Elgin, Moray
Elgin is a former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland. It is the administrative and commercial centre for Moray. The town originated to the south of the River Lossie on the higher ground above the flood plain. Elgin is first documented in the Cartulary of Moray in 1190...
(to the east). James McLeman is the acting head teacher of the local Alves Primary School, that educates around 28 pupils!(2010) The local pub and restaurant is The Crooked Inn. Recently there has been a small housing development on the corner of the road leading south out of the village. Just down this road is Royal Alves, comprising the disused railway station and cottages. The dismantled railway (now a sort of ditch) is crossed by a small weak stone bridge. This hamlet is named after the use of this station and some local buildings by the British Royal Family
British Royal Family
The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms, thus sometimes at variance with...
, as Alves was the nearest railway stop to Gordonstoun School and was close to other Royal Estates in Moray. The hamlets of Garrowslack and Hillside are further southeast and are made up of isolated farms and houses.
Churches
Alves has two churches, the Old North Church (also known as Mary Kirk) was built in 1769 and is believed to occupy the same site as earlier churches here which records show date back to the 13th century. This church became disused in 1932 although it briefly housed members of the RAF in 1941 whilst they awaited the completion of their quarters at nearby RAF KinlossRAF Kinloss
RAF Kinloss is a Royal Air Force station near Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. It opened on 1 April 1939 and served as an RAF training establishment during the Second World War. After the war it was handed over to Coastal Command to watch over Russian ships and submarines in...
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The village cemetery, or kirkyard, is still located at this church. A recent survey by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group found a buried stone dated 1571, one of the earliest found by the group so far. The new South Church was built in 1878 as a Free Church and remains used to this day as part of the Presbytery of Moray. Services are held at 11.30 am on the first Sunday of the month. The bell in the South Church is actually the one removed from the old North Church after it closed.
School Football Team
Alves Primary has their own football team. They have been in the Moray schools league for around since 2004. They do not win many matches but they are hoping to do well in the Dallas tournament and the Burghead tournament as they are both coming up soon and in 2008 the team got to the semi finals of the Dallas tournament after winning all their group games without letting in a goal. They lost the semi final on penalties to Seafield primary school.In the early 1990s Alves competed with the very best Primary School Football teams in Morayshire, despite having comparatively few pupils. In 1994 the School won the small schools league, while the previous year had reached the final of the Morayshire schools final played in Forres, losing out on penalties to Applegrove.