Backhill Wood
Backhill Wood is a forest in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Backhill Wood is situated nearby to the village Strichen, as well as near the locality Blackhillock.Places of Interest
Highlights include Strichen stone circle and Mormond White Horse.
Strichen stone circle
Archaeological site
Strichen stone circle is a Megalithic recumbent stone circle located near Strichen, Aberdeenshire in the north east of Scotland. It has been destroyed twice and in the early 1980s was excavated and reconstructed.
Mormond White Horse
Photo: Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mormond Hill is a broad eminence in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, not far from Fraserburgh. Its twin summits reach heights of 754 feet and 767 feet; the higher of the two is known as Waughton Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strichen and New Pitsligo.
Strichen
Village
Photo: Temple of Mara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strichen is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It sits on the A981, connecting it to New Deer 7.2 miles to the southwest and Fraserburgh 8 miles to the north-northeast, and the B9093, connecting it to New Pitsligo about 4 miles due west.
New Pitsligo
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
New Pitsligo, also known as Cavoch, is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, near Fraserburgh.
Maud
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maud is a village in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire. Located 13 miles west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water, Maud rose to prosperity in the 19th century 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.
Backhill Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.5708° or 57° 34′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.1184° or 2° 7′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C9VHVCJ+8JOpenStreetMap ID
way 31291059OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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