Loudon Wood
Loudon Wood is a forest in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Loudon Wood is situated nearby to the village Old Deer, as well as near the hamlet Biffie.Places of Interest
Highlights include Deer Abbey and Aikey Brae stone circle.
Deer Abbey
Archaeological site
Photo: Deacon of Pndapetzim, Public domain.
Deer Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Buchan, Scotland. It was founded by 1219 under the patronage William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, who is also buried there.
Aikey Brae stone circle
Archaeological site
Photo: Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aikey Brae is a recumbent stone circle on Parkhouse Hill near Old Deer in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The recumbent stone is about 21.5 tonnes and there are five stones still erected in total.
Loudon Wood stone circle
Archaeological site
Photo: Chris Lodge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loudon Wood stone circle is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mintlaw and Maud.
Mintlaw
Village
Photo: Sagaciousphil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mintlaw is a large village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lies at the intersection of the A950 and A952 roads, west of Peterhead. The 2001 UK census records a population of 2,647 people.
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.
Stuartfield
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stuartfield is a small inland village in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated 1.8 kilometres south of Old Deer. The village was originally known as New Crichie, with the name Crichie still used locally.
Loudon Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.5368° or 57° 32′ 12″ northLongitude
-2.0696° or 2° 4′ 11″ westOpen location code
9C9VGWPJ+P5OpenStreetMap ID
way 952672606OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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