Aberdeenshire is surrounded by 100 miles of attractive coastline and on the third by the 4000 foot tops of the Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire offers mountains and moorland. There are salmon stocked rivers and sturdy slate-roofed towns in Aberdeenshire and local folk sure of their own special culture - and all ready with a genuine welcome.
From the Cairngorms down across the rolling farmland, Aberdeenshire is a place cut by delightful valleys and winding rivers - the Dee, Don, Deveron, Ugie and Ythan.
This is in many ways the heartland of what people expect Scotland to be - malt whisky, heather-clad moors, castle at every corner, Highland Games and unpretentious people with very individual speech and identity.
Aberdeenshire has quality of life second to none in its variety:
Magnificent scenery, from 250 kilometres of coastline across rich rolling
farmlands to the heather clad Cairngorm mountains.
A pollution-free atmosphere
An agreeable pace of life
"All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils" - Queen Victoria, September 1848.
Aberdeenshire council area and scenic county of eastern Scotland. Aberdeenshire projects eastward into the North Sea and encompasses coastal lowlands in the north and east and part of the Grampian Mountains. The council area and the historic county occupy different areas. The city of Aberdeen is part of the historic county of Aberdeenshire but constitutes an independent council area that forms an enclave within the council area of Aberdeenshire.
Aberdeenshire played a part in the long struggle between Canmore and Macbeth. It was at Lumphanan that Macbeth fell in 1057. During the Anglo-Norman penetration, great families such as the Balliols, the Bruces, and the Comyns obtained a footing in the shire. When the contested succession between these three houses resulted in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the English king Edward I twice traversed the county, in 1296 and 1303. Robert the Bruce's victory in 1307 near Inverurie was a turning point in the struggle.
North of the Highland boundary fault Aberdeenshire mainly comprises an agricultural lowland drained by rivers that generally flow east. The land is in the rain shadow of the Grampians, resulting in a generally dry climate with parts of the coast receiving less than 25 inches of precipitation annually.
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