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Inverurie
Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Uraidh'' or ''Inbhir Uaraidh'', 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and River Don, Aberdeenshire, Don, about north-west of Aberdeen. Geography Inverurie is in the strath of the River Don, Aberdeenshire, River Don at the centre of Aberdeenshire and is known locally as the Heart of the Garioch. It sits between the River Don, Aberdeenshire, River Don and the River Ury and is from the imposing hill of Bennachie. The town centre is triangular and is dominated by Inverurie Town Hall built in 1863. In the middle of the 'square' (as it is known locally) is the Inverurie and District War Memorial, capped by a lone Gordon Highlander looking out over the town. The main shopping areas include the Market Place and West High Street which branches off from the centre towards the more residential part of the town. South of the River Don is the village of Port Elphinstone, which is part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inverurie Town Hall
Inverurie Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Inverurie, Scotland. The structure, which served as the meeting place of Inverurie Burgh Council, is a Category B listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was a tolbooth erected in 1660: it was a two-storey building, with a prison the ground floor and a council chamber on the first floor, which was remodelled in the early 19th century. In the mid-19th century the burgh leaders decided to demolish the old building and to erect a new structure on the same site. The new building was designed by John Russell Mackenzie in the Baroque style, built in grey granite and was officially opened on 9 July 1863. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the Market Place with the end bays projected forward; the central section of five bays featured, in the middle bay, a round headed door with a fanlight on the ground floor and a niche on the first floor. The other bays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeenshire Canal
The Aberdeenshire Canal was a waterway in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, designed by John Rennie, which ran from the port of Aberdeen to Port Elphinstone, Inverurie. It was originally planned to reach Monymusk, but had been truncated by the time an act of Parliament was obtained in 1796. Construction was hampered by a lack of finance, and some local opposition, but it opened in 1805. Some of the workmanship was sub-standard, and several of the locks failed soon afterwards, but they were reconstructed, and reopened in late 1806. It was used for the carriage of a wide variety of cargo, and passenger services were also introduced. These proved popular, and two boats a day made the journey during the summer months, with one in the winter. They gradually faced competition from the adjacent turnpike road, which was quicker but more expensive. A connecting lock was built in 1834, to enable boats to enter Aberdeen harbour, which eased the problem of transhipping goods to larger vessels. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garioch
Garioch (, , ) is one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It has a population of 46,254 (2006 estimate), which gives it the largest population of Aberdeenshire's six committee areas. The Garioch consists primarily of the district drained by the River Ury and its tributaries the Shevock and the Gadie Burn. Name The placename "Garioch" comes from the Gaelic ''Gairbheach'', meaning "place of roughness". The name is first mentioned as "Garviach" in a charter dated to between 1178 and 1182, referring at that time to the small area now known as the Upper Garioch. This is still the meaning used in a charter granting land to the Bishop of Aberdeen in 1190, but by 1195 the name was being used to describe the entire area of the provincial lordship, extending as far east as Inverurie. History Before the late 12th century, Garioch consisted only of the area of the parishes of Culsalmond, Insch, Rathmuriel, Kennethmont, Leslie, Aberdeenshire, Leslie, Premnay and Clatt in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Of Inverurie
The Bass of Inverurie is the remnant of a motte-and-bailey castle based on a natural mound about high and in diameter to the south of the town of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Bass and the adjacent Little Bass to the east are the remains of the castle of Inverurie, the administrative centre of the provincial lordship of the Garioch Garioch (, , ) is one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It has a population of 46,254 (2006 estimate), which gives it the largest population of Aberdeenshire's six committee areas. The Garioch consists primarily of the distric ... in the 12th and 13th centuries. References External links * Recreation of how the castle may have appeared in the Middle Ages Castles in Aberdeenshire {{Scotland-castle-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area includes all of the areas of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire except the area making up Aberdeen City Council area, as well as part of Banffshire. The historic county boundaries are still officially used for a few purposes, namely land registration and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy. Aberdeenshire Council is headquartered at Woodhill House in Aberdeen, making it the only Scottish council whose headquarters are located outside its jurisdiction. Aberdeen itself forms a different council area (Aberdeen City). Aberdeenshire borders onto Angus, Scotland, Angus and Perth and Kinross to the south, Highland (council area), Highland and Moray to the west a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Ury
The River Urie (or River Ury) () is a small river in northeastern Scotland situated in the The Garioch, Garioch area of Aberdeenshire (unitary authority area), Aberdeenshire. Its origins are close to Bennachie, approximately 25 miles to the northwest of Aberdeen. The river runs for approximately 15 miles before meeting the River Don, Aberdeenshire, River Don at the south edge of Inverurie. Its main tributary is the Gadie Burn. Fishing permits are available for salmon and trout. The Ordnance Survey use the name "River Urie" and this spelling is often used, possibly because of the association with Inverurie (which was itself spelled Inverury until the nineteenth century). Local people usually prefer the spelling "Ury" which is generally used by Aberdeenshire Council. References Rivers of Aberdeenshire, Ury {{Scotland-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Don, Aberdeenshire
The River Don () is a river in north-east Scotland. It rises in the Grampians and flows eastwards, through Aberdeenshire, to the North Sea at Aberdeen. The Don passes through Alford, Kemnay, Inverurie, Kintore, and Dyce. Its main tributary, the River Ury, joins at Inverurie. Course of the river The Don rises in the peat flat beneath ''Druim na Feithe'', and in the shadow of Glen Avon, before flowing quietly past the ice-age moraine and down to Cock Bridge, below the picturesque site of the Delnadamph Lodge, demolished in 1988. Several streams, the Dhiver, Feith Bhait, Meoir Veannaich, Cock Burn and the Allt nan Aighean merge to form the embryonic Don. Water from the north of Brown Cow Hill () drains into the Don, while water from the west side runs into the River Spey and that from the south side into the Dee. The Don follows a circuitous route eastwards past Corgarff Castle, through Strathdon and the Howe of Alford before entering the North Sea just north of Old Aberd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle
Easter Aquhorthies stone circle, located near Inverurie in north-east Scotland, is one of the best-preserved examples of a recumbent stone circle and one of the few that still have their full complement of stones and the only one that has all its stones still standing without having been re-erected. It stands on a gentle hill slope about west of Inverurie and consists of a ring of nine stones, eight of which are grey granite and one red jasper. Two more grey granite stones flank a recumbent of red granite flecked with crystals and lines of quartz. The circle is particularly notable for its builders' use of polychromy in the stones, with the reddish ones situated on the SSW side and the grey ones opposite. The discovery of a possible cist covered by a capstone at the centre of the circle indicates that there may once have been a cairn there, but only a conspicuous bump now remains. The ring of stones is not quite circular and has a somewhat "squashed" aspect, measuring along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon And Buchan (UK Parliament Constituency)
Gordon and Buchan is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. It has been represented since 2024 by Conservative Harriet Cross; she defeated the SNP's Richard Thomson, who was MP for the predecessor constituency of Gordon from 2019 to 2024. The constituency name refers to the former Scottish districts of Gordon and Buchan. Boundaries The constituency comprises the following wards or part wards of Aberdeenshire Council: * In full: Turriff and District, Mid Fromartine, Ellon and District, Inverurie and District. * In part: Central Buchan (minority, comprising southwestern areas), West Garioch1 (majority - excluding Kemnay), East Garioch1 (majority - excluding Blackburn), Huntly, Strathbogie and Howe of Alford1 (majority - excluding Alford). 1 The boundary within these wards is equivalent to the boundary between the former Gordon consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeenshire East (Scottish Parliament Constituency)
Aberdeenshire East ( Gaelic: ''Siorrachd Obar Dheathain an Ear'') is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Aberdeenshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole. The seat was created for the 2011 election, and largely consists of areas that were in the former constituency of Gordon. It has been held by Gillian Martin of the Scottish National Party since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election. Electoral region The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are: Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Banffshire a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
