Maud
Maud is a village in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire, with a population of 780. Located 13 miles west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water, Maud rose to prosperity after 1863 as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, but has always been the meeting place of six roads.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 867 residents
- Description: town in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire
- Also known as: “Bank of Behitch”, “Brucklay”, “Maud, Aberdeenshire”, and “New Maud”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aikey Brae stone circle.
Aikey Brae stone circle
Archaeological site
Photo: Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aikey Brae is a recumbent stone circle on Parkhouse Hill near Old Deer in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The recumbent stone is about 21.5 tonnes and there are five stones still erected in total. Aikey Brae stone circle is situated 2½ miles east of Maud.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Deer and Stuartfield.
New Deer
Village
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New Deer is a settlement in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, which lies in the valley of Deer. It is located at the junction of several roads crossing through the Howe of Buchan. New Deer is situated 2½ miles west of Maud.
Stuartfield
Village
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Stuartfield is a small inland village in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated 1.8 kilometres south of Old Deer. It was formerly known as New Crichie, and the name is still used by locals as illustrated by the village association website being crichie.org. Stuartfield is situated 3½ miles east of Maud.
Old Deer
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Deer is a parish and village in the district of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The population in 2011 was 152. The village lies on the A950, beside the Deer or South Ugie Water, 10.1 miles west of Peterhead and 2 miles from Mintlaw. Old Deer is situated 3½ miles east of Maud.
Maud
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.52143° or 57° 31′ 17″ northLongitude
-2.12957° or 2° 7′ 46″ westPopulation
867Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)Open location code
9C9VGVCC+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 31827652OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642903Wikidata ID
Q6792195
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Maud” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Maud”
- Aragonese: “Maud”
- Arpitan: “Maud”
- Asturian: “Maud”
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- Cajun French: “Maud”
- Catalan: “Maud”
- Cebuano: “Maud”
- Chinese: “莫德”
- Corsican: “Maud”
- Croatian: “Maud”
- Czech: “Maud”
- Danish: “Maud”
- Dutch: “Maud”
- Esperanto: “Maud”
- Estonian: “Maud”
- Finnish: “Maud”
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- German: “Maud”
- Hungarian: “Maud”
- Ido: “Maud”
- Indonesian: “Maud”
- Interlingua: “Maud”
- Interlingue: “Maud”
- Irish: “Am Mód”
- Italian: “Maud”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Maud”
- Japanese: “モード”
- Kabyle: “Maud”
- Kongo: “Maud”
- Latvian: “Maud”
- Ligurian: “Maud”
- Limburgan: “Maud”
- Lithuanian: “Maud”
- Low German: “Maud”
- Luxembourgish: “Maud”
- Mainfränkisch: “Maud”
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- Narom: “Maud”
- Neapolitan: “Maud”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maud”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maud”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Maud”
- Papiamento: “Maud”
- Picard: “Maud”
- Piemontese: “Maud”
- Polish: “Maud”
- Portuguese: “Maud”
- Prussian: “Maud”
- Romagnol: “Maud”
- Romanian: “Maud”
- Romansh: “Maud”
- Sardinian: “Maud”
- Scots: “Maud, Aiberdeenshire”
- Scots: “Maud”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Maud”
- Sicilian: “Maud”
- Slovak: “Maud”
- Spanish: “Maud”
- Swahili: “Maud”
- Swedish: “Maud, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Maud”
- Swiss German: “Maud”
- Turkish: “Maud”
- Venetian: “Maud”
- Vietnamese: “Maud”
- Vlaams: “Maud”
- Volapük: “Maud”
- Walloon: “Maud”
- Welsh: “Maud”
- Wolof: “Maud”
- Zulu: “Maud”
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