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History

New Deer Aberdeenshire is now the largest and most important of the four villages founded by James Ferguson of Pitfour at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th cent. The village lies 11 miles north north west from Ellon and 5.5 miles west of Old Deer.

Ferguson created it beside the ancient hamlet of Auchriddie- the 'Field of Bog Myrtle'-high at the head of the Ugie vale. From nearby Hill of Culsh there are splendid views to Peterhead 18miles east Bennachie 28 miles south, and the more distant hills of Banff and Moray.

Nearby antiquities include the 15th-cent. Castle of Fedderate and the Muckle Ordeal Stone of Auchmaliddie.

James Ferguson (1734-1820) was a remarkable man who drove turnpike roads throughout Buchan, transformed its treeless aspect with miles of hawthorn hedges and great plantations on his own estate, constructed a 45-acre lake and added a miniature facsimile of the Temple of Theseus in Athens.

His other village creations were Longside, Mintlaw and Fetterangus, which was his first, in 1772: it is now by-passed by the A92 but maintains an important agricultural implement factory.

Longside vies with Old Deer as the most charming village in Buchan. Here the Rev. John Skinner, the Episcopalian pastor and poet, survived persecution.

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