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Milestone, North Street, Inverurie
17 miles from Aberdeen
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Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 3 Mar 2015
0.04 miles
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Milestone on North Street, Inverurie
The old granite block bears the number "17", being 17 miles from Aberdeen.
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Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 3 Mar 2015
0.04 miles
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Old milestone
Many of the original routes spreading out from the city of Aberdeen to other important towns have been changed and upgraded over the years. This 17 mile single-bevelled granite stone is now on the unclassified North Street from which it is still possible to follow a route towards Huntly, Keith and the Moray Firth. Another stone in this Grid Square is one of the rare double-bevelled stones giving mileages to Inverurie (In 1) and Aberdeen (Ab 17).
Image: © Chris McBrien
Taken: 17 Apr 2021
0.07 miles
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Burghmuir Drive
The junction of Burghmuir Drive and North Street is controlled by a very busy roundabout with traffic for the A96 directed up the drive.
Much of the housing results from the Aberdeen oil boom of the second half of the 20th century.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 15 Aug 2012
0.09 miles
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Water Reservoir off Burghmuir Drive
The enhanced security of the place (metal fence doubling the height of the old stone wall plus five strands of barbed wire atop) ensured my curiosity.
It appears that the housing estates were built much later and have been adapted to fit in around the fenced off area.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 17 Aug 2012
0.09 miles
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Versatile Steel Works
On North Street, Inverurie.
The site looks a bit deserted, but google says they are (or were) Steel Fabricators and Erectors.
Plans to build 49 flats on this site in 2009 were rejected.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 15 Aug 2012
0.15 miles
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Pieces of a Puzzle
A 1995 artwork by Jeremy Cunningham.
Made from interlocking granite blocks with a metal upright at the centre.
The constellations of the Plough and Cassiopeia are inscribed on the base as pointers to the North Star.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 11 Aug 2011
0.20 miles
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Suburban sculpture
A piece of public art entitled "Pieces of a Puzzle" by Jeremy Cunningham enlivens a token slice of green space in the 1990s suburban wasteland of Inverurie.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 Sep 2017
0.21 miles
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Site of the Brandsbutt Stone Circle
The circle has been marked out on the open grass patch in a housing estate.
The circle would have dated back to the third millennium BC, but all 12 (or possibly 13) stones have been removed and/or destroyed.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 11 Aug 2011
0.22 miles
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Douping Stone
This is one of the stones that made up the stone circle beside the Brandsbutt Stone. It and its fellow had been built into a field wall, but when the area was redeveloped as housing they were re-erected beide the Brandsbutt Stone. It is named on the 1:25,000 map as 'Douping Stone' but I have not found any explanation for this. https://canmore.org.uk/site/18882/brandsbutt for more information.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 25 Feb 2016
0.22 miles