Elrick
Elrick is a small village on the A944 road 7+1⁄2 miles west of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. The name derives from a Gaelic word meaning a place where deer were driven for hunting.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Westhill Academy and Proposed Aberdeen stadium.
Westhill Academy
School
Photo: Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Westhill Academy is an Aberdeenshire Council secondary school in Westhill, near Aberdeen, Scotland, serving the Westhill, Elrick and Skene areas of Aberdeenshire.
Proposed Aberdeen stadium
The new Aberdeen stadium is a football stadium under early stages of construction in Kingswells, Aberdeen, Scotland. The new stadium, called Kingsford Stadium, would be the home of Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen FC to replace the existing Pittodrie Stadium.Loch of Skene
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Skene is a large lowland, freshwater loch in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lies approximately 1 mi to the west of the village of Kirkton of Skene and 9 mi west of Aberdeen. Loch of Skene is situated 2 miles west of Elrick.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westhill and Skene.
Westhill
Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Westhill is a town in Aberdeenshire, seven miles west of Aberdeen. It was built as a "greenfield" commuter town and industrial park from 1968, and by 2020 had grown to a population of 12,110.
Skene
Village
Photo: Andrew Tryon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skene is a small farming community in North East Scotland some 6 mi west of Aberdeen. The two traditional villages are Kirkton of Skene and Lyne of Skene.
Garlogie
Village
Photo: Alan Findlay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garlogie is a roadside hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was, during the 19th century, the site of a textile milling settlement using water from Loch of Skene. Garlogie is situated 2 miles west of Elrick.
Elrick
- Type: Village
- 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
57.15105° or 57° 9′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.30219° or 2° 18′ 8″ westElevation
404 feet (123 metres)Open location code
9C9V5M2X+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2574608636OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Elrick” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Elrick”
- Dutch: “Elrick”
- French: “Elrick”
- Irish: “An Eilreig”
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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 “Elrick”. Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.