Maryculter
Maryculter () or Kirkton of Maryculter is a village in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The River Dee separates it from the town of Peterculter, and the B979 road runs through Maryculter. There are two hotels: The Old Mill Inn, a former coaching inn that dates back 200 years, and Maryculter House Hotel. At the edge of the village of Maryculter is a public forest land, known as the Oldman Wood, through which flows the Crynoch Burn. Also the children's theme park, StoryBook Glen, which also consists of a shop and restaurant is located near the old church which is still in use today as a Church of Scotland. Other notable vicinity buildings are the Lairhillock Inn and Muchalls Castle. Maryculter also has an animal sanctuary, Blaikiewell Animal Sanctuary.
Ancient history
Traces of early peoples from the Stone Age to the Iron Age have been found in the area.[1] Prehistoric habitation in the Maryculter area is known through archaeological sites such as Balbridie situated somewhat west of Maryculter. Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes, marching slightly west of Maryculter, as they sought higher ground evading the bogs of Red Moss and other low-lying mosses associated with the Burn of Muchalls. That march used the Elsick Mounth, one of the ancient trackways crossing the Grampian Mountains,[2] lying west of Netherley.
Notable residents
- Rev. Prof. George Glennie FRSE DD (1768-1845), minister, born and raised in the village
- George John Robert Gordon (1812-1912), diplomat, born in Maryculter
- Rev. William Selbie (1823-1895), minister of the Free Church in Maryculter from 1853 to 1895[3]
Line notes
- ^ "Scheduled Ancient Monuments". Road Sense. Archived from the original (xls) on September 28, 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, ed A. Burnham
- ^ Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church
References
- John A. Henderson (1892) Annals of Lower Deeside: Being a Topographical, Proprietary, Ecclesiastical, and Antiquarian History of Durris, Drumoak, and Culter, D. Wyllie and Son, 271 pages
- C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, ed A. Burnham
External links
Bibliography
Nicol, Norman D (1999) Maryculter in the Eighteenth Century: Lairds, Kirk and People in a Lower Deeside Parish
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