Auchindown Castle

Auchindown Castle is a ruin in Moray, Scotland.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mortlach Parish Church and Dufftown distillery.

Mortlach Parish Church

Church

Photo: Christopher Gillan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mortlach Parish Church is a church within the Church of Scotland serving the parish of Mortlach, in Moray, close to the village of Dufftown. The site of the church has long been associated with Christianity, going back perhaps as far as 566 when St Moluag is said to have founded a religious community there. Mortlach Parish Church is situated 2½ miles northwest of Auchindown Castle.

Dufftown distillery

Distillery

Photo: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dufftown distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery in Dufftown, Moray, Scotland. Founded in 1895 as "Dufftown-Glenlivet Distillery", the distillery is currently owned by Diageo. Dufftown distillery is situated 2 miles northwest of Auchindown Castle.

Mortlach distillery

Distillery

Photo: Christopher Gillan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mortlach distillery is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Dufftown, Moray, Scotland. Founded in 1823, the distillery is owned by Diageo. Mortlach distillery is situated 2½ miles northwest of Auchindown Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dufftown and Glass.

Dufftown

Photo: Karora, Public domain.

Dufftown is a village in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population in 2022 of 1500. Together with the villages of Craigellachie and Rothes to the north, it has a formidable collection of whisky distilleries, and many can be toured.

Glass

Village

Glass is a parish about 8 miles west of Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is now wholly located in Aberdeenshire but before the reorganisation of Scottish county boundaries in 1891 it was partly in Banffshire. Glass is situated 5 miles east of Auchindown Castle.

Maggieknockater

Hamlet

Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Maggieknockater is a hamlet on the A95 road between Craigellachie and Mulben in Scotland in the Moray council area, in the county of Banffshire. Until the early 1970s there was a large apiary which was well known in the region and has lived on in the Scottish country dance "The Bees of Maggieknockater". Maggieknockater is situated 6 miles north of Auchindown Castle.

Auchindown Castle

Type: Ruin
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.41667° or 57° 25′ north

Longitude

-3.08333° or 3° 5′ west

Elevation

1,010 feet (308 metres)

Open location code

9C9RCW88+MM

GeoNames ID

2656819

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