Bennachie

Buchanstone railway station is a former railway station in Aberdeenshire. On the Great North of Scotland Railway, the station was on the north side of the track. It was opened in November 1854 and closed to passenger traffic in September 1866. The building was demolished before 1901 and nothing visible remains. The railway line is still in use as the Aberdeen to Inverness Line.

Oyne is a small village in rural Aberdeenshire at the bottom of Bennachie in Scotland.

Oyne railway station is a former railway station serving the small village of Oyne, Aberdeenshire.

Westhall Castle, also known as Westhall House, is a country house located to the north of Oyne, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The house includes a 16th-century L-plan tower house, which was substantially extended in the 17th and 19th century. The house is a category A listed building.

Ardoyne is a rural area near Insch in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Harthill Castle is a large 17th-century Z-plan castle, about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north-west of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, south of Kirkton of Oyne.It may also be known as Torries Castle.

Old Rayne is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 9 miles (14 kilometres) north west of Inverurie and 14 mi (23 km) south east of Huntly along the A96 road.

Lickleyhead Castle is a well-restored L-plan castle, dating from around 1600, a little south of Auchleven, by the banks of the Gadie Burn, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.Alternative spellings are Licklihead and Licklyhead Castle.

The Colony was a squatters' community on "commonty", or common land, on one side of Bennachie, a range of hills near Aberdeen, in Scotland.From the beginning of the nineteenth century common land in the parishes of Chapel of Garioch and Oyne on the east side of Bennachie became home to a community of squatters. This settlement was known locally as the Colony. Various estimates have been made of when the colony began with some citing 1825 but according to Fagen the first documentary evidence is from 1831. A small number of families led a crofting life supplementing it by doing skilled work, such as dyking, quarrying and knitting.Two stones were landmarks within the colony: the Boddach Stone and the Gouk Stone. Only the latter remains. The size of the colony varied over time. The following table summarises census data extracted from Fagen's text. In 1859, eight neighbouring landlords took possession of sections of Bennachie as part of their estates. This action, recognised in law from 5 March 1859, has become known as the Division of the Commonty. As a result, the population on the side of the hill began to decline. Most of the crofts were built on land claimed by Col. Charles Leslie of Balquhain and Fetternear. His son, Charles Stephen Leslie, was responsible for evicting some of the residents in 1878. The last of the colonists, George Esson, lived on the hill until his death in May 1939. Esson was a drystone dyker. While working on the Dunecht Estate, repairing old dykes and creating new ones, he would lodge with a Mrs Cooper at Dunecht, then walk the twenty miles back to the colony at weekends.Visitors to Bennachie can explore the Colony, including the remains of a croft which was excavated as part of the Fetternear Research Project in 1999.

Culsalmond was a 16th-century castle about 9.5 miles (15.3 km) south east of Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, near the river Ury.

The River Urie (or River Ury) (Scottish Gaelic: Uaraidh / Ùraidh) is a small river in northeastern Scotland situated in the Garioch area of Aberdeenshire. Its origins are close to Bennachie, approximately 25 miles to the northwest of Aberdeen. The river runs for approximately 15 miles before meeting the River Don at the south edge of Inverurie. Its main tributary is the Gadie Burn. Fishing permits are available for salmon and trout.The Ordnance Survey use the name "River Urie" and this spelling is often used, possibly because of the association with Inverurie (which was itself spelled Inverury until the nineteenth century). Local people usually prefer the spelling "Ury" which is generally used by Aberdeenshire Council.

Auchleven (Scottish Gaelic: Achadh Leamhan) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Located approximately 4 miles (6 kilometres) south of Insch, 17 mi (27 km) south of Huntly and 12 mi (19 km) north-west of Inverurie. It is also known as Premnay, the name of the parish in which it is located.