Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Castles: Balmoral on the road up the valley above Ballater is a grandiloquent Victorian pile of a castle, the prototype of the "Scottish Baronial" style, all mock-turrets and stags heads looming over the stairways. Completed in 1856, it remains the Royal Family's summer holiday home.
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Things to do
Highland Gatherings and Games: each town or large village hosts an event during a summer weekend. Pipe bands, caber-tossing, field and track events, and so on; they're often combined with Agricultural Shows. The full calendar is posted online. Ski at Glenshee or Lecht. With a longer drive you can also reach Aviemore/Cairngorm in Highland Region, but its funicular is closed for engineering works as of January 2024.
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Where to eat
Aberdeen has the widest choice of cuisine and price range. The small towns go for cheap and cheerful fare such as fish & chips. They often have an Indian, an Italian and a takeaway Chinese to add variety. Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven claims to have invented the deep-fried Mars Bar, and still serves them. Aberdeen Angus, the local breed of cattle, are prized for their marbled beef.
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Getting to Aberdeenshire
- Airports
- Aberdeen (ABZ), 7 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 154 km · Glasgow (GLA), 201 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Aberdeenshire143 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–24
- Glasgow → Aberdeenshire175 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £21–28
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Aberdeenshire252 km · quickest by road, 6h 21m · £36–48
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Aberdeenshire
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aberdeenshire. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAberdeen is the transport hub for the county, with good air, rail and road connections, and car ferries to Orkney and the Shetland Islands.
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