Folla Rule is a hamlet in

Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Aberdeenshire (historic), Aberdeenshire, which had substantial ...

, Scotland, on the site of the 1376 chapel of St Rule at Folla. Another church, St George's Episcopal, was built in 1796. It has been altered several times, with a new north

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, lengthened

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(by Arthur Clyne in 1897), and finally into a house. The

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, dating to 1800, is "a substantial classical building with

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dressings". It also has a rectangular

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* Hamlets in Scotland Villages in Aberdeenshire {{Aberdeenshire-geo-stub