Maud, Aberdeenshire

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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, Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine & 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 to give it its current name.

[edit] The Village

Maud features an old Railway station, which closed in 1979. Walks can be taken along the old railway lines. There was a mart or livestock market until recently, selling local livestock. There is also a hospital for the elderly, which was formerly a poorhouse that opened in about 1868.

[edit] External links

• Maud's entry in the Gazetteer of Scotland
• Maud Railway Station Museum
• Map sources for Maud, Aberdeenshire

Coordinates: 57.52210° N 2.12687° W