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Bieldside

Bieldside is a suburb to the west of Aberdeen City Centre, Scotland.

The place

Bieldside is a suburb to the west of Aberdeen City Centre, Scotland. Together with the neighbouring suburb of Cults, it is the wealthiest area in Scotland. It has one pub/restaurant, The Bieldside, a foodstore, a hairdresser, a tea room and a charity shop. The Old Deeside railway line passes through Bieldside, and Queen Victoria would often stop at Bieldside on her regular journeys between her summer retreat at Balmoral and the city centre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bieldside

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Blairs College

    St Mary's College, Blairs, situated near Aberdeen in Scotland, was from 1829 to 1986 a junior seminary for boys and young men studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood. Part of the former college now houses Blairs Museum, the museum of Scotland's Catholic heritage.

    1.5 km · seminary, now museum, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gray's School of Art

    Gray's School of Art is an art school located in Aberdeen, Scotland. Part of Robert Gordon University, it is one of the oldest established fine art institutions in Scotland and one of Scotland's five art schools today, and ranked among the Top 20 Schools of Art and Design in the United Kingdom.

    3 km · art college in Aberdeen · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Den and the Glen

    The Den and the Glen is a children's park in Maryculter, Scotland, near the city of Aberdeen, which opened in 1984. The park features outdoor play areas and sculptural displays depicting characters from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and popular children’s television and film franchises.

    3.6 km · park in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hazlehead Park

    Hazlehead Park is a public park in the Hazlehead area of Aberdeen, Scotland. 180 hectares in size, it was opened to the public in 1920, having formerly been the estate of Hazlehead House, home of William Rose, shipbuilder.

    3.1 km · public park in the Hazlehead area of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Johnston Gardens

    Johnston Gardens is a small public garden in Aberdeen, Scotland. The garden has won the Britain in Bloom competition many times.

    4 km · public garden in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bieldside

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 10 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 148 km · Glasgow (GLA), 195 km
Stations
Murtle railway station, 1 km · Cults railway station, 1.8 km · Pitfodels railway station, 2.7 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Bieldside
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h · £18–24
  • Glasgow → Bieldside
    188 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £21–28
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bieldside
    233 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · £26–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bieldside

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 Bieldside. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Aberdeenshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    213 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    241 km
  3. 03
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    246 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    249 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    252 km

If you know how people move in Bieldside – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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