Strachan
Strachan is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that lies along the Water of Feugh, a tributary of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, a few miles southwest of Banchory.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Strachan, Aberdeenshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scolty Hill.
Scolty Hill
Peak
Photo: Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scolty Hill is a small hill south of the Deeside town, Banchory. Its best known feature is the 20m tall tower monument, built in 1840 as a memorial to General William Burnett who fought alongside Wellington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banchory and Finzean.
Banchory
Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Banchory is a town in Aberdeenshire, with a population in 2016 of 7560. It's in the scenic Dee valley 18 miles west of Aberdeen, and its main visitor attraction is Crathes Castle. It's also a good base for visiting Balmoral Castle and Cairngorms National Park.
Finzean
Village
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Finzean is a rural community, electoral polling district, community council area and former ecclesiastical parish, which forms the southern part of the Parish of Birse, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Finzean is situated 3½ miles west of Strachan.
Brathens
Hamlet
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brathens is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Brathens is situated 4 miles north of Strachan.
Strachan
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.02064° or 57° 1′ 14″ northLongitude
-2.53746° or 2° 32′ 15″ westElevation
279 feet (85 metres)Open location code
9C9V2FC7+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 1447417388OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Strachan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Strachan”
- Czech: “Strachan (Aberdeenshire)”
- Czech: “Strachan”
- Dutch: “Strachan”
- Finnish: “Strachan, Aberdeenshire”
- Finnish: “Strachan”
- French: “Strachan”
- German: “Strachan”
- Hebrew: “סטראכן”
- Italian: “Strachan”
- Portuguese: “Strachan”
- Scots: “Strachan, Aiberdeenshire”
- Scots: “Strachan”
- Spanish: “Strachan”
- Swedish: “Strachan”
- Ukrainian: “Страхан”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Strachan Parish Church and Strachan Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Strachan”. Photo: Pasicles, CC0.