Dunecht
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 10 ′ N , 2 ° 25 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | WESTHILL | ||
| ZIP code section | AB32 | ||
| prefix | 01330 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Aberdeenshire | ||
| British Parliament | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Aberdeenshire West | ||
Dunecht is a village in the Scottish council area of Aberdeenshire . It is located about 20 kilometers west of Aberdeen northwest of the Loch of Skene .
history
A late Bronze Age hill fort is located on a hill southwest of the village . A nearby standing stone is possibly already Stone Age . Two Stone Age and Bronze Age stone circles ( Nether Corskie , Wester Echt) also attest to the early settlement of the area.
In 1845, Alexander Lindsay , who later became the 25th Earl of Crawford , who made his fortune from coal mining in Lancashire , bought the Dunecht estate . The nucleus of the manor Dunecht House , which John and William Smith expanded in 1859, was built there as early as 1820 . With the sale of the property in 1900, the village of Dunecht, which was still called Waterton at that time , was renamed and expanded as a planned settlement. In 1907 Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray initially leased the property and eventually acquired it two years later.
traffic
On the Aberdeen to Corgarff leading A944 Dunecht is connected directly to the trunk road network. In the center of the village also crosses the B977, which runs in a north-south direction.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
