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Milltimber

Milltimber is a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, around 6 miles (10 km) west of Aberdeen city centre.

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The place

Milltimber is a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, around 6 miles (10 km) west of Aberdeen city centre. From 1854 to 1937 the area was served by Milltimber railway station on the Aberdeen suburban railway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Milltimber

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.

    2.4 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.

    2.3 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.

    2.2 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Milltimber

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 11 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 146 km · Glasgow (GLA), 193 km
Stations
Culter railway station, 2.2 km · Murtle railway station, 1.1 km · Cults railway station, 3.9 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Milltimber
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £18–24
  • Glasgow → Milltimber
    185 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £21–28
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Milltimber
    231 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £25–34
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Milltimber

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 Milltimber. 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

    213 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    239 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

    247 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 Milltimber – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Milltimber

  • Petercultersuburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK2.3 km
  • Cultshuman settlement in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK3.8 km
  • Bieldsidehuman settlement in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Marycultervillage in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK2.4 km
  • Countesswellsvillage in Aberdeen, Scotland3.7 km
  • Deeside Wayrail trail in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK500 m