Echt, Aberdeenshire

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Human settlement in Scotland

Echt

* Scottish Gaelic: Eicht

Echt church, built 1804

Echt

Location within Aberdeenshire

Population| 300
OS grid reference| NJ739055
Council area|

* Aberdeenshire

Lieutenancy area|

* Aberdeenshire

Country| Scotland
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| WESTHILL
Postcode district| AB32
Police| Scotland
Fire| Scottish
Ambulance| Scottish
UK Parliament|

* West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

Scottish Parliament|

* Aberdeenshire West

List of places

Scotland

57°08′26″N 2°26′04″W﻿ / ﻿57.14054°N 2.43455°W﻿ / 57.14054; -2.43455

Echt (Scottish Gaelic: Eicht) is an Aberdeenshire crossroads village in northeast Scotland with a population of approximately 300 people.[1] Echt has a number of prehistoric remains, including the Barmekin of Echt[2] which is on a hill to the northwest. There is also the Cullerlie stone circle near Sunhoney Farm, which may date from the Bronze Age.[3]

Echt contains a church, village shop/post office, restaurant (Echt Tandoori) and pleasure park with a designated area of children's play equipment and local football matches are held. The annual Echt Show, a farmers' show, is held on the 2nd Saturday in July.

It is centred on the junction of the B977 Dunecht—Banchory road and the B9119 Kingsford—Ordie road. It is some 12+1⁄2 miles (20.1 km) from the city of Aberdeen.

## Literary associations

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Echt was the birthplace, in 1896, of Chris Guthrie, the fictional heroine of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy A Scots Quair.[4] In the 1890s, Jean Baxter, author of the collection of poems in Scots A' Ae 'Oo (1928), spent part of her childhood in the village, while her family kept the Balcarres Arms Hotel.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Echt Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
2. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Barmekin Of Echt (Site no. NJ70NW 1)". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
3. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Cullerlie (Site no. NJ70SE 2)". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
4. ^ Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (2015), Sunset Song, Polygon, Edinburgh, p. 28, ISBN 9781846973574,
5. ^ Baxter, Alison (2024), Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter; Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ISBN 9798340910509,

* AA Touring Guide to Scotland (1978)

## Further reading

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* Baxter, Alison (2024), Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ISBN 9798340910509

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Echt, Aberdeenshire.

* Echt in the Gazetteer for Scotland
*   * Map sources for Echt, Aberdeenshire
* Virtual Eagle Tour of Barmekin Hill

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Settlements and places of interest in Garioch, Aberdeenshire

Primary settlements|

* Blackburn
* Insch
* Inverurie
* Kemnay
* Kintore
* Newmachar
* Westhill

Other settlements|

* Auchleven
* Blairdaff
* Colpy
* Dunecht
* Echt
* Elrick
* Garlogie
* Hatton of Fintray
* Kingseat
* Kinmuck
* Old Rayne
* Oyne
* Pitcaple
* Sauchen
* Skene

Places of interest|

* Bennachie
* Chapel of Garioch
* Castle Fraser
* Dunnideer
* Leslie Castle
* Maiden Stone

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in Banff and Buchan|

* Aberchirder
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in Buchan|

* Boddam
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* Balmedie
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* Ellon
* Fyvie
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in Garioch|

* Blackburn
* Insch
* Inverurie
* Kemnay
* Kintore
* Newmachar
* Westhill

in Kincardine and Mearns|

* Drumoak
* Fettercairn
* Gourdon
* Inverbervie
* Johnshaven
* Laurencekirk
* Luthermuir
* Newtonhill
* Portlethen
* St Cyrus
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in Marr|

* Aboyne
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* Ballater
* Banchory
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