Photo of Ballater, a village in the Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire, north east Scotland.

Villages & towns in AberdeenshireAberdeenshire, Scotland

29 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across Aberdeenshire — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in Aberdeenshire.

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Ballater

Victorian planned village on the River Dee, the nearest town to Balmoral with a restored railway station and royal warrant shops.

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Portsoy

Historic Banffshire harbour known for its serpentine marble and its annual traditional boat festival.

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Stonehaven

Harbour town beneath Dunnottar Castle, famous for its Hogmanay fireball ceremony and Art Deco lido.

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Crovie

Tiny cliff-foot fishing village of one gable-end row, reachable only on foot after its 1953 storm.

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Pennan

Single-row Buchan fishing village, the Local Hero film location with its cult red phone box.

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Banff

Georgian coastal town at the mouth of the Deveron, home to William Adam's Duff House.

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Braemar

Highland village in upper Deeside set among the Grampians, home of the Braemar Gathering highland games.

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Collieston

Whitewashed cliff-huddled fishing village beside the Forvie dunes, once a smuggling haunt.

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Gardenstown

Steeply terraced fishing village on Gamrie Bay, its old fishertown packed above a sheltered harbour.

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Banchory

Deeside town near the Falls of Feugh, a gateway between the coast and Royal Deeside.

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Fraserburgh

Major fishing port at Buchan's north-east tip, home to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.

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Huntly

Historic market town on the edge of the Speyside whisky trail, centred on the ruin of Huntly Castle.

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Aboyne

Deeside village with a broad village green that hosts the Aboyne Highland Games.

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Cruden Bay

Buchan coastal village with a broad dune-backed beach, near the Bullers of Buchan and Slains Castle.

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Fettercairn

Mearns village entered through a stone arch, with its own working single-malt distillery.

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Gourdon

Line-fishing village on the Mearns coast that still lands and smokes haddock at its harbour.

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Monymusk

Planned conservation village on the Don with a rare Romanesque parish church and estate green.

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Newburgh

Village at the Ythan estuary with a huge dune system and a seal colony on the far sandbank.

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Sandend

Fishing hamlet with a curving sandy bay popular with surfers, near Portsoy.

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Tarland

Old market village in the Howe of Cromar, with a recumbent stone circle and an Iron Age earth house close by

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Johnshaven

Traditional Mearns fishing village with a small harbour on the coast south of Inverbervie.

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St Cyrus

Mearns coastal village above a wide sandy beach and national nature reserve of dunes and cliffs.

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Whitehills

Trim fishing village with a small marina west of Banff on the Moray Firth.

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Rosehearty

One of Scotland's oldest recorded seaports, a small fishing village west of Fraserburgh.

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Alford (Alford)

Rural town in the Howe of Alford, home to the Grampian Transport Museum and Alford Valley Railway.

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Boddam

Fishing village south of Peterhead beside Buchan Ness, the mainland's most easterly lighthouse.

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Macduff

Working fishing town facing Banff across the Deveron, with a small marine aquarium.

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Insch

Garioch village beneath Dunnideer hill, with a ruined castle and Pictish associations.

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Peterhead

Scotland's largest fishing port and the easternmost town on the Scottish mainland.

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