Dyce

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Dyce
Scottish Gaelic Deis
Main street of Dyce
Main street of Dyce
Coordinates 57 ° 12 ′  N , 2 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 12 ′  N , 2 ° 11 ′  W
Dyce (Scotland)
Dyce
Dyce
Residents 5712 2011 census
administration
Post town ABERDEEN
ZIP code section AB21
prefix 01224
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Aberdeen
British Parliament Gordon
Scottish Parliament Aberdeen Donside

Dyce ( Gaelic : Deis ) is an industrial town in the Scottish council area of Aberdeen . It is located about eight kilometers northwest of the center of Aberdeen on the west bank of the Don . The Bucksburn district of Aberdeen begins just a few hundred meters south .

history

Dyce developed with the establishment of a train station along the main line of the Great North of Scotland Railway in the 1860s. In 1934, Aberdeen International Airport opened in Dyce. In the following decades the village developed an industrial character and companies from the food industry, telecommunications and oil processing, among others, settled in the newly developed industrial areas of Dyce.

At the 1841 census there were 470 people in Dyce. The population grew rapidly to 1162 in 1881. The highest level was registered in 1981 with 7040 people. Thereafter, the number of inhabitants decreased to 5661 in 2001. In the context of the 2011 census, 5712 people were counted in Dyce.

Tire excavator (also called Dyce) is a stone circle of the Recumbent Stone Circle S (RSC) type, about 20 m in diameter, located to the west of the village.

economy

Various petroleum companies have offices in Dyce. These include BP , which directs its activities in the North Sea from this location, as well as the US company Halliburton . The Norwegian Aker Solutions also has an office at the site. Due to the proximity to Aberdeen Airport , one of the two hubs of bmi regional , this company is also represented in Dyce.

traffic

The village is located directly on the A944 (Aberdeen - Corgarff ). The A96 (Aberdeen– Inverness ) runs around three kilometers south . Dyce Station was once served by trains on the main line of the Great North of Scotland Railway and was also the terminus of the Formartine and Buchan Railway . Today trains stop there on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line of the First ScotRail . This also connects to Aberdeen's international airport in Dyce.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ a b c Dyce. Aberdeen City. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  3. ↑ a b Dyce. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 2: (Cor - Edn). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1884, p. 454 .
  4. ↑ Information. In: Gazetteer for Scotland. 2011.
  5. ↑ 2011 census

Web links

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