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Maryculter

Maryculter or Kirkton of Maryculter is a village in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Maryculter
Maryculter · Rosser1954
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Maryculter

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.

  1. 01
    Maryculter House

    Maryculter House is a historic house in the village of Maryculter, or Kirkton of Maryculter, in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

    1.5 km · historic house in Maryculter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, now a hotel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.1 km · seminary, now museum, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK · 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.

    400 m · park 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.

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Getting to Maryculter

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 13 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 144 km · Glasgow (GLA), 191 km
Stations
Culter railway station, 2 km · Murtle railway station, 3 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Maryculter
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £17–23
  • Glasgow → Maryculter
    184 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £20–27
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Maryculter
    229 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · £25–33
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Maryculter

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    215 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    237 km
  3. 03
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    244 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    250 km

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

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