Tarland
Tarland is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland 5 miles northwest of Aboyne, and 30 miles west of Aberdeen. The population was 720 in 2016. Tarland is home to the Culsh Earth House, an Iron Age below-ground dwelling otherwise known as a Souterrain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include St Moluag’s Church, Cromar Drive, Tarland and Tomnaverie stone circle.
Tomnaverie stone circle
Photo: Silkie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tomnaverie stone circle is a recumbent stone circle set on the top of a small hill in lowland northeast Scotland. Construction started around 2500 BC, in the Bronze Age, to produce a monument of thirteen granite stones including a massive 6.5-ton recumbent stone lying on its side along the southwest of the circle's perimeter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Logie Coldstone and Dinnet.
Logie Coldstone
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Logie Coldstone is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village lies north of the River Dee, near Tarland in the Cromar, a basin of land cut out of the Grampian foothills between Aboyne and Ballater. Logie Coldstone is situated 3 miles west of Tarland.
Dinnet
Village
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dinnet is a village in the Marr area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Approximately equidistant from Deeside towns Aboyne and Ballater and situated on the main A93 road in the valley of the River Dee, it is said to be the gateway to both the Highlands and the Cairngorms National Park. Dinnet is situated 3½ miles south of Tarland.
Aboyne
Town
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aboyne is a village on the edge of the Highlands in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the River Dee, approximately 30 miles west of Aberdeen. It has a swimming pool at Aboyne Academy, all-weather tennis courts, a bowling green and is home to the oldest 18 hole golf course on Royal Deeside. Aboyne is situated 4½ miles southeast of Tarland.
Tarland
- Type: Village with 714 residents
- Description: village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.12745° or 57° 7′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.85887° or 2° 51′ 32″ westPopulation
714Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)Open location code
9C9V44GR+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 4966528174OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2636216Wikidata ID
Q1009829
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Tarland” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tarland”
- Bulgarian: “Тарланд”
- Cebuano: “Tarland”
- Dutch: “Tarland”
- French: “Tarland”
- Greek: “Tarland”
- Greek: “Τάρλαντ”
- Hebrew: “טרנלד”
- Irish: “Turlann”
- Persian: “تارلند”
- Polish: “Tarland”
- Scots: “Tarland”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Turlann”
- Slovenian: “Tarland”
- Spanish: “Tarland”
- Swedish: “Tarland”
- Welsh: “Tarland”
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