Little Banchory
Little Banchory is a hamlet in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Little Banchory is situated nearby to the hamlet Kirktown of Banchory, as well as near Drumduan.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bridge of Dee and Gordon Highlanders Museum.
Bridge of Dee
Bridge
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The Bridge of Dee or Brig o Dee is a road bridge over the River Dee in Aberdeen, Scotland. The term is also used for the surrounding area of the city. Dating from 1527, the bridge crosses at what was once the City of Aberdeen's southern boundary.
Gordon Highlanders Museum
Museum
Photo: Lizzie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Gordon Highlanders Museum is based in Aberdeen, Scotland and celebrates the story of the Gordon Highlanders regiment, which originated as the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1794, merged with the 75th Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders in 1881 and was then amalgamated into a new larger unit of the British Army in 1994. Gordon Highlanders Museum is situated 2 miles north of Little Banchory.
Blairs College
Museum
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's College, Blairs, situated near Aberdeen in Scotland, was from 1829 to 1986 a junior seminary for boys and young men studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood. Blairs College is situated 2 miles southwest of Little Banchory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banchory-Devenick and Garthdee.
Banchory-Devenick
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Banchory-Devenick is a hamlet approximately two kilometres south of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire. The hamlet should not be confused with the historic civil parish of the same name which spanned the River Dee until 1891, its northern part lying in Aberdeenshire and its southern part in Kincardineshire.
Garthdee
Suburb
Garthdee is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. There is a large housing estate in Garthdee.
Cults
Suburb
Photo: Oyoyoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cults is a suburb on the western edge of Aberdeen, Scotland. It lies on the banks of the River Dee and marks the eastern boundary of Royal Deeside. Cults, known for its historic granite housing, sits approximately six miles from the coast of the North Sea.
Little Banchory
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.11058° or 57° 6′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.15233° or 2° 9′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C9V4R6X+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 14027155981OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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