Kincorth is a suburb located to the south of

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. The name is a corruption of the

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"Ceann Coirthe", which probably refers to an old pillar or

standing stone A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright rock (geology), stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. T ...

(''coirthe''). Kincorth is known as the

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of Aberdeen, and its plan originated in a competition launched in 1936 and won by Robert Gardner-Medwin, Denis Winston and

Clifford Holliday Albert Clifford Holliday (1897–1960) M. Arch, Dip. C.D., F.R.I.B.A., M.T.P., was a British architect and town planner who worked in several places across the British Empire, including Mandatory Palestine, Ceylon and Gibraltar, as well as in ...

. It also has the Kincorth hill nature reserve known locally as the Gramps (Grampian mountains)The area is served by local high school

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