Drumoak
Drumoak is a village situated between Peterculter and Banchory in North Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, which is classified as a town by the Understanding Scottish Places programme.
Drumoak is a village situated between Peterculter and Banchory in North Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, which is classified as a town by the Understanding Scottish Places programme. Drumoak is near the River Dee, with Park Bridge, named for the local Park Estate, being a local crossing; Park Estate, was formerly owned by the railway engineer Sir Robert Williams; Sir Robert is interred at Drumoak.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Drumoak
3 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.
- 01Drum Castle
Drum Castle is a castle near Drumoak in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. For centuries it was the seat of the chief of Clan Irvine.
1 km · castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Park Bridge
Park Bridge is a road bridge in Aberdeenshire, Scotland which crosses the River Dee. It is currently open to pedestrians and cyclists, and it also carried vehicular traffic until February 2019.
1.3 km · bridge in Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Wikipedia - 03Durris Castle
Durris Castle, also known as the House of Dores, was an early royal residence on the southern bank of the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The site consisted of a medieval motte and bailey castle and controlled the northern end of the Crynes Corse Mounth trackway.
3.1 km · castle in Aberdeenshire, 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.
Getting to Drumoak
- Airports
- Aberdeen (ABZ), 15 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 141 km · Glasgow (GLA), 186 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Drumoak141 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £17–23
- Glasgow → Drumoak179 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £20–27
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Drumoak225 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £25–33
- 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 Drumoak
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 Drumoak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe city also has trains every couple of hours from Inverness, ferries from Orkney and Shetland, and inter-city buses.
- Get inAll buses start from Aberdeen Union Square, next to the railway station and ferry port.
From Wikivoyage: Westhill, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01214 km
- 02232 km
- 03238 km
- 04241 km
- 05244 km
If you know how people move in Drumoak – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.