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Mastrick

Mastrick is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland, located on the western fringes of the city around 2+1⁄2 miles from the city centre.

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The place

Mastrick is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland, located on the western fringes of the city around 2+1⁄2 miles from the city centre. It currently has a population of 7,365 and an unemployment rate of 1.6%. Residential property in the area is a mix of houses and flats, 23% of which are still council owned. This is around twice the average in Aberdeen City.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mastrick

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
    University of Aberdeen

    The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.

    4 km · university in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Robert Gordon University

    Robert Gordon University, commonly called RGU, is a public research university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

    3.9 km · university in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of St Mary of the Assumption, usually known as St Mary's Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the home of the see of the Bishop of Aberdeen, who is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen in the Province of St Andrews & Edinburgh.

    3.7 km · church in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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
  5. 05
    Aberdeen Art Gallery

    Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1884 in a building designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, with a sculpture court added in 1905.

    3.8 km · Local Authority Museum in Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Rowett Research Institute

    The Rowett Institute is a research centre for studies into food and nutrition, located in Aberdeen, Scotland.

    3.7 km · research institute in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    His Majesty's Theatre

    His Majesty's Theatre is a theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland, and the largest in north-east Scotland, seating more than 1,400. It stands on Rosemount Viaduct, opposite the city's Union Terrace Gardens, and was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1906.

    3.7 km · theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Aberdeen Mosque and Islamic Centre

    The Aberdeen Mosque and Islamic Centre is a Sunni mosque, located in Aberdeen, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. It is the largest mosque and Islamic centre in the North East of Scotland, and operates two sites within Aberdeen.

    3.9 km · mosque and Islamic center in Scotland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stewart Park, Aberdeen

    Stewart Park is located in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is a 5-acre site owned by Aberdeen City Council.

    2.3 km · park in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    2.6 km · park 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.

Go there

Getting to Mastrick

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 6 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 153 km · Glasgow (GLA), 199 km
Stations
Bucksburn railway station, 2.5 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Mastrick
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £18–24
  • Glasgow → Mastrick
    193 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £21–28
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Mastrick
    238 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · £26–35
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mastrick

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 Mastrick. 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

    208 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    245 km
  3. 03
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    248 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    255 km

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

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