Maud, Aberdeenshire facts for kids

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Maud From Station
Maud village, seen from the old station

Maud (Gaelic: Am Mòd) is a small town in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire. Population 610 (2004). Located 13 miles west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water, Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, but has always been the meeting place of six roads. It has had a variety of names:

  • Bank of Behitch
  • Brucklay
  • New Maud

the 'New' falling out of use leading to its current name.

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  • Village centre, Maud - geograph.org.uk - 833494

    Maud village centre


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