IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Hawthorn Gardens, ELLON, AB41 7RZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Hawthorn Gardens, AB41 7RZ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (37 Images Found)
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View towards Udny Green
There are a surprising number of new-build houses in this rather isolated village, which is surrounded by farmland.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 12 May 2012
0.04 miles
2
The morthouse, Udny Green
In the early 1800s, corpses were in demand for dissection in anatomy schools. Body snatchers (resurrection men) supplied the demand by stealing fresh bodies from their graves. Morthouses, immensely strong buildings, were used to store bodies until corrupt and of no value to the anatomists. The one at Udny Green is unique. It is circular, constructed of granite blocks and has inside a turntable on which coffins were placed. By the time a body had gone full circle it was too rotten to be of interest. The opening is guarded by an inner iron door which rises vertically from a pit, and a stout outer door of oak.
Image: © Martyn Gorman
Taken: Unknown
0.04 miles
3
Country churchyard
The morthouse (see: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/132693) is in the background
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 12 May 2012
0.05 miles
4
Mort House, Udny, Aberdeenshire
During the eighteenth century, medical research at universities was hampered by a shortage of dead bodies upon which to perform investigations. Many bodies, cadavers, were purchased illegally from "resurrectionists" who exhumed recently buried bodies for this purpose.
In Scotland, the fear of bodysnatching, led parishes to invest in methods to protect the deceased. In Udny, they built a Morthouse. This circular stone building houses a revolving wheel upon which a coffin would be placed and kept securely under lock and key. When another body was deposited, the wheel would be turned slightly to accommodate the new coffin. Eventually, when a coffin had been rotated one full revolution, it could safely be buried because the corpse would be sufficiently decomposed as to be of no use to the body-snatchers.
This one is at Udny in Aberdeenshire.
Image: © Lynette and Malcolm Johnson
Taken: 3 Jun 2004
0.05 miles
5
Lamp standard and phone in Udny Green
Kiosk and lamp standard next to Udny Green church.
Image: © Andrew Wood
Taken: 3 Oct 2008
0.05 miles
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The morthouse, Udny Green churchyard
Morthouses: "impregnable buildings used to temporarily store corpses until they were corrupt." These were a very Scottish phenomenon, especially in the vicinities of Aberdeen and St Andrews: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bodysnatchers/morthouses.php
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 12 May 2012
0.06 miles
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"Eat on the Green", Udny Green
I had been told that "Eat on the Green" was good, though not cheap. However as I wanted only a quick snack, I did not investigate.
Image: © David Purchase
Taken: 14 Jun 2019
0.06 miles
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Into Udny
A small bridge before you enter Udny Green
Image: © Ralph Greig
Taken: 9 Jan 2022
0.07 miles
10
South side of the Square, Udny Green
The building on the right is the Eat on the Green restaurant -- nice but not cheap... http://eatonthegreen.co.uk/
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 12 May 2012
0.08 miles