Torry
Torry is a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, lying on the south bank of the River Dee. It was historically part of the county of Kincardineshire and was absorbed into the city of Aberdeen in 1891.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 9,500 residents
- Description: suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Torrey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aberdeen railway station and Queen Victoria Bridge.
Aberdeen railway station
Railway station
Photo: King Bilbo I, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aberdeen railway station is the main railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the busiest railway station in Scotland north of the major cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Queen Victoria Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Chadlongstaff, Public domain.
Queen Victoria Bridge, also known as Victoria Bridge, is a road bridge across the River Dee linking the main part of the City of Aberdeen with Torry and the southern areas of the city.
Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aberdeen Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Aberdeen, Scotland. The museum is situated on the historic Shiprow in the heart of the city, near the harbour.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balnagask and Tullos.
Balnagask
Quarter
Photo: Lizzie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Balnagask is an area of Torry, a burgh of Aberdeen in Scotland. Balnagask is said to mean "the village in the hollow" in Gaelic. The Balnagask Estate stretched from the golf course to the fields that overlooked both the Bay of Nigg and the railway line.
Tullos
Quarter
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tullos is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. The area takes its name from the Vale of Tullos, which lies between Tullos Hill and Torry Hill. Tullos derived its name from a corruption of the Gaelic ‘Tulach’ meaning a hill.
Footdee
Suburb
Photo: Ettore Timi, CC BY 2.5.
Footdee, locally known as Fittie, is a picturesque area of Aberdeen, Scotland. A former fishing village, it lies at the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour. The name appears to mean "foot of the Dee", but it has also been linked to Fittick, a local saint.
Torry
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.1352° or 57° 8′ 7″ northLongitude
-2.08247° or 2° 4′ 57″ westPopulation
9,500Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)Open location code
9C9V4WP9+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 176120062OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2635630Wikidata ID
Q7827168
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Torry” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Torry”
- Catalan: “Torry”
- Irish: “Torraidh”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Garden City and Old Torry.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tullos Community Wildlife Garden & Growing Space and Torry Youth and Leisure Centre.
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