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OS grid reference
  
NJ933074

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
AB24, AB25

Dialling code
  
01224

Lieutenancy area
  
Aberdeenshire

UK parliament constituency
  
Aberdeen North

Country
  
Post town
  
ABERDEEN

Police
  
Council area
  
Aberdeen

Scottish parliament
  
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Kittybrewster is an area within Aberdeen, Scotland, north of the city centre and roughly south-west of Old Aberdeen.

Contents

Map of Kittybrewster, Aberdeen, UK

Transport

Within the area the A9012 road joins the A978 road; there are also several railway tracks, one of which follows the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal. The name Kittybrewster has been given to three railway stations over the years, including Aberdeen's original main railway station for routes to the north (on the Great North of Scotland Railway). All three stations are now gone, although the route north continues.

Facilities

The area now contains a small number of bars, the Kittybrewster and Woodside Bowling Club, Kittybrewster Primary School, two retail parks (on the sites of former railway yards), a council depot (on the site of one of the old and closed railway stations) and the moderne-styled Northern Hotel.

History

The name first appears an official document of 1615, although the lands around were known as the Browster lands in 1376; in 1675 it appeared again as "Kettiebrauster". It has a Celtic derivation from Cuitan Briste, meaning "broken fold". (Cuitan, dim. of cuit, fold (modern Gaelic cuidhe); briste, broken.) Usually, folds for cattle had water near them. Kittybrewster was in the den now called Berryden, which means watery (bùrnach) den.

Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1912–92) was born at Powis House, Kittybrewster and took the name as his territorial designation when he was given a baronetcy in 1964.

The name is remembered in a Victorian era fantasy poem by William Cadenhead (1819–1904), "Kittybrewster".

References

Kittybrewster Wikipedia


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