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Newburgh
seaport village in Foveran parish, on the right side of the river Ythan 5 miles
south east of Ellon Station. At the end of the 19th cent. Newburgh is still
a seaport,
though on a small scale.
The Ythan estuary is the largest on the Aberdeenshire
coast, yet
the stream that flows within it is a shrunken giant, a mere 40 m. long, in
places but a burn meandering among the reeds - yet a burn that teems with fish
to a degree unique for one of its size, a burn that, swollen by the tide, fills a basin
700 yds
across.
The secret of prehistory that explains this paradox is that once the Ythan rolled
to meet
the Rhine replete with the headwaters of the Deveron,
the Bogie, the Shevock. and the Ury. All these it lost by
river-capture, but the estuary it created in
its heyday remains.
Most visitors come to fish for the
Ythan sea trout, which are world-famous,
though the river also has its brown
trout and salmon. Others come to
study and observe, for the Ythan estuary offers a special challenge to the sciences of
nature, a fact catered for by Culterty,
the University of Aberdeen's Field Station, formerly the home and bird sanctuary of the late Dr H. Edgar
Smith. Newburgh also possesses raised
beaches on three levels,
flint-knapping sites where prehistoric man shaped his first tools, salt marshes
teeming with every kind of estuarine life, and the mighty dunes that pile up to their dramatic climax on the
N. side of the estuary in the Sands
of forvie. | 
