IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Swan Road, ELLON, AB41 9FQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Swan Road, AB41 9FQ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (10 Images Found)
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Distance
1
The A920 entering Ellon...
...with suburban sprawl either side.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 1 Mar 2020
0.09 miles
3
River Ythan
On the south (right) bank of the river is a large area of housing, none of which is on the 1976 1:50,000 map. This indicates how fast Ellon has grown in recent decades.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 11 May 2009
0.14 miles
4
Ellon suburban
Ellon has expanded greatly in the last 20 years and now has its own suburban sprawl.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 1 Mar 2020
0.15 miles
5
Western Avenue
Housing on the edge of Ellon, seen from the old railway.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 4 Aug 2011
0.18 miles
6
Welcome to Ellon...
...as seen by those arriving on the A920 from Oldmeldrum. The burgh arms: per fesse azure and pean three garbs or (granted 1935) pay tribute to the ancient arms of the Earl of Buchan and feature the very unusual tincture (colour) of 'pean', a heraldic fur consisting of "ermine spots of gold on a black field". The motto of "Judge notch quhill ye end" (don't count your chickens before they're hatched) comes from the Buchan and Kennedy family mottoes. Information on the arms came from the invaluable 'Scottish Burgh & County Heraldry' by R M Urquhart.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 1 Mar 2020
0.20 miles
7
Western Avenue, Ellon
Ellon has expanded as far as the old railway. View from an embankment south of the viaduct.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 4 Aug 2011
0.20 miles
8
Prowlin'
Disused railways are very interesting places for cats. Housing up against the embankment on the approach to the viaduct.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 4 Aug 2011
0.20 miles
9
River Ythan
Looking downstream from the former railway viaduct, which now carries the Formartine and Buchan Way, a long-distance walking and cycling route on the bed of the former railway.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 11 May 2009
0.23 miles
10
Ellon Viaduct, Aberdeenshire
The viaduct at Ellon carried the Great North of Scotland Railway from Aberdeen to the fishing towns of Peterhead and Fraserburgh over the River Ythan. Passenger trains ceased to run in 1965 with closure to all traffic in 1979. Ellon was also the junction for a branch built to serve the railway companies massive luxury hotel at Cruden Bay. The whole of the 38 miles between Dyce and Peterhead and the 16 miles between Maud Junction and Fraserburgh have been converted into a long distance cycle/walkway, the 'Formartine & Buchan Way'
Image: © Ralph Rawlinson
Taken: 18 Sep 2004
0.24 miles