Ballater
Ballater is a town in Aberdeenshire about 25 miles west of Aberdeen. It grew up as resort town in the Victorian era and in 2022 had a population of 1400.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Karora, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Birkhall and Knock Castle.
Birkhall
Manor estate
Photo: Alan Findlay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birkhall is a 210 km2 estate on Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, owned by King Charles III. It is located alongside the River Muick to the south-west of Ballater.
Knock Castle
Castle
Photo: Camer01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Knock Castle is a ruined tower house in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. It is typical of the traditional type of residence of a laird, a Scottish landed gentleman.
Victoria Barracks
Military installation
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Victoria Barracks is a military installation in Ballater, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tullich.
Tullich
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tullich is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is known as the birthplace of St. Nathalan and also as the site of some noted Pictish stones. The church is the site of a ruined church, built in around 1400.
Ballater
- Type: Town with 1,380 residents
- Description: town (burgh) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.0495° or 57° 2′ 58″ northLongitude
-3.0405° or 3° 2′ 26″ westPopulation
1,380Elevation
659 feet (201 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BAXOpen location code
9C9R2XX5+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 3927900357OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Ballater” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բալլատեր”
- Asturian: “Ballater”
- Azerbaijani: “Ballater”
- Basque: “Ballater”
- Bulgarian: “Балатер”
- Cebuano: “Ballater”
- Chinese: “巴勒特”
- Dutch: “Ballater”
- Esperanto: “Ballater”
- French: “Ballater”
- German: “Ballater”
- Hebrew: “בולטר”
- Irish: “Bealadair”
- Italian: “Ballater”
- Japanese: “バラター”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ballater”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ballater”
- Norwegian: “Ballater”
- Persian: “بالاتر”
- Polish: “Ballater”
- Scots: “Ballater”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ballater”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bealadair”
- Slovenian: “Ballater”
- Spanish: “Ballater”
- Swedish: “Ballater”
- Welsh: “Ballater”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Ballater”. Photo: Karora, Public domain.