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Stuartfield

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Population
  
700 (2012)

Country
  
Scotland

Post town
  
PETERHEAD

Local time
  
Wednesday 10:38 PM

Council area
  
Aberdeenshire

Scottish parliament
  
Aberdeenshire East

OS grid reference
  
NJ973459

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
AB42

Dialling code
  
01771 (Mintlaw)

Lieutenancy area
  
Aberdeenshire

UK parliament constituency
  
Banff and Buchan

Stuartfield

Weather
  
7°C, Wind S at 21 km/h, 99% Humidity

Stuartfield is a small inland village in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) south of Old Deer. It was formerly known as Crichie, and the name is still used by locals as illustrated by the village association website being crichie.org.[1] The name Crichie derives from the Gaelic word “Creachann”, which means “summit of a rock”.

Contents

Map of Stuartfield, Peterhead, UK

Services

Stuartfield has many services for the locals such as a local inn -The Crichie Inn, a primary School, butcher, grocery store, Garage, Garden, Machinery shop and Park. Although Stuartfield was once very small it is currently expanding with new houses being built on two separate plots of land.

Activities

The village has many activities to offer for children and adults alike. Such as Highland Dancing, Woman's Badminton, Rainbows, The Community Association and The Pleasure park Committee, and of course the local pub the Crichie Inn.

History

The local vicinity is rich with prehistory as well as historical features. Somewhat to the south of Stuartfield are a number of prehistoric monuments including Catto Long Barrow, Silver Cairn and many tumuli. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts.

Crichie was the birthplace of John Leslie (bishop of Clogher) in 1571.

References

Stuartfield Wikipedia