IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
INVERURIE, AB51 4JD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to AB51 4JD 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.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (7 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Playing fields off Burghmuir Drive
Near the Garioch Sports Centre.
Part is floodlit for evening matches.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 17 Aug 2012
0.09 miles
2
Group of shops on Burghmuir Drive
Includes a PostOffice, Pharmacy and a small but well stocked Co-op store that sells fresh butteries early in the morning.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 17 Aug 2012
0.16 miles
3
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
0.21 miles
4
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
0.21 miles
5
Church of the Immaculate Conception, North Street, Inverurie
Built 1852, to mark the return of official Catholic worship to the town for the first time since the Reformation: we see the west gable with Early-English lancet windows and "blind oculus" above.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 16 Jul 2017
0.21 miles
6
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
0.22 miles
7
Apartments, North Street, Inverurie
A few years ago Inverurie had the highest average house prices in Scotland: http://www.scotsman.com/news/inverurie-tops-list-as-most-expensive-location-to-buy-a-house-1-705057 . Things have cooled off considerably in the wake of the oil slump but there are several large, modern apartment complexes in town. This one on North Street, with its palette of light greys, almost dazzles the eyes on a sunny day...
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 16 Jul 2017
0.25 miles