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Hazlehead

Hazlehead is an area to the west of Aberdeen.

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The place

Hazlehead is an area to the west of Aberdeen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hazlehead

10 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
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen

    The Diocese of Aberdeen is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Scotland.

    2.3 km · since 1878, diocese of the Catholic Church in the Scotland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rubislaw Quarry

    Rubislaw Quarry is a quarry situated at the Hill of Rubislaw in the west end of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. The quarry is one of the biggest man-made holes in Europe at approximately 466 ft.

    2 km · quarry lake in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Victoria Park

    Victoria Park is a small park in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. The park has an area of five hectares and was opened to the public in 1871.

    4 km · park in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen

    Queen's Cross Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is located at the intersection of Carden Place and Albyn Place, at Queen's Cross in the heart of Aberdeen's west end business community.

    3.5 km · church building in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gordon Highlanders Museum

    The Gordon Highlanders Museum is based in Aberdeen, Scotland and celebrates the story of the Gordon Highlanders regiment, which originated as the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1794, merged with the 75th Regiment of Foot to form the Gordon Highlanders in 1881 and was then amalgamated into a new larger unit of the British Army in 1994. It is a five-star VisitScotland attraction and the only one of its kind in Aberdeen.

    2.1 km · military museum in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.9 km · art college in Aberdeen · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Westburn Park

    Westburn Park is a public park in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is owned by Aberdeen City Council and is one of the largest parks in the city, with an area of 10 hectares.

    3.9 km · urban park in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rubislaw Church

    Rubislaw Church is a Church of Scotland parish church in the Queen's Cross area of Aberdeen, Scotland. It has a recently refurbished church centre on Fountainhall Road.

    3.3 km · church in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holburn West Parish Church

    Holburn West Church was a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The Church united with the congregations of Midstocket Church, Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen and Rubislaw Church to form Fountainhall Church in June 2023.

    3.5 km · church in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Friendville

    Friendville is a large manor house and estate in the Mannofield area of Aberdeen, Scotland, operated as a hireable exclusive use venue. It is notable for being situated in the city of Aberdeen itself yet containing an estate and gardens that are more commonly found in rural country houses.

    2.8 km · manor house 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 Hazlehead

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 7 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 151 km · Glasgow (GLA), 197 km
Stations
Murtle railway station, 3.9 km · Cults railway station, 2.3 km · Pitfodels railway station, 2.5 km · Ruthrieston railway station, 3.5 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Hazlehead
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £18–24
  • Glasgow → Hazlehead
    191 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £21–28
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Hazlehead
    236 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · £26–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hazlehead

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 Hazlehead. 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

    210 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    243 km
  3. 03
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    247 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    253 km

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

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