Westhill
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 11,800 residents
- Description: town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Westhill, Aberdeenshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Proposed Aberdeen stadium and Brimmond Hill.
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.Brimmond Hill
Peak
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brimmond Hill is a hill in Aberdeen, Scotland. The summit is the highest point within the Aberdeen City council area, at an elevation of 266 m. The hill itself is situated in the area between Kingswells, Westhill, Blackburn and Dyce.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skene and Kingswells.
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.
Kingswells
Village
Photo: XKQ7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kingswells is a village and suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, situated west of the city and to the east of Westhill which lies on the other side of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route bypass. Kingswells is situated 2 miles east of Westhill.
Countesswells
Village
Countesswells is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. Countesswells is situated 3 miles southeast of Westhill.
Westhill
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.1536° or 57° 9′ 13″ northLongitude
-2.2799° or 2° 16′ 48″ westPopulation
11,800Elevation
417 feet (127 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WSIOpen location code
9C9V5P3C+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 517437162OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Westhill” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Westhill”
- Basque: “Westhill”
- Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট হিল”
- Cebuano: “Westhill”
- Chinese: “西山”
- Chinese: “韋斯特希爾”
- Chinese: “韦斯特希尔”
- Dutch: “Westhill”
- French: “Westhill”
- German: “Westhill”
- Greek: “Δικτός λόφος”
- Gujarati: “વેસ્ટહિલ”
- Italian: “Westhill”
- Japanese: “ウェストヒル”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ಹಿಲ್”
- Korean: “웨스트힐”
- Lithuanian: “Vesthilas”
- Persian: “وستهیل، آبردینشایر”
- Polish: “Westhill”
- Portuguese: “Westhill”
- Russian: “Вестхил”
- Spanish: “Westhill”
- Swedish: “Westhill”
- Tamil: “வெஸ்தில்”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్ హిల్”
- Ukrainian: “Вестхілл”
- Urdu: “ویستھل”
- Welsh: “Westhill, Swydd Aberdeen”
- Welsh: “Westhill”
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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 “Westhill”. Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.