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An abandoned visitor centre in Aberdeenshire, which cost £4m to build in 1997, is on the market for offers over £150,000. Archaeolink Prehistory Park at Oyne , near Insch, shut down in 2011 ...
Ury House is a large ruined mansion in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built in the Elizabethan style in 1885 by Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet. It is situated on the north-east coast about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Stonehaven in the former county of Kincardineshire .
After the war, Highland Airways was taken over by British European Airways, which abandoned any interest in serving the island. [72] Today, Stroma has no regular communications with the mainland. The island's owner ran occasional boat trips there on weekends for visitors, including Prince Charles, who painted watercolours of the abandoned houses.
St John's Church is located on the north coast of Moray in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The ruined church and its small burial ground sit on the edge of a cliff overlooking Gamrie Bay and the small, coastal village of Gardenstown. The church is a long, narrow, roofless building, 28.77 m (94.4 ft) by 4.75 m (15.6 ft).
Crown Estate Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Oighreachd a' Chrùin Alba) is the self-financing public corporation of the Scottish Government responsible for the management of land and property in Scotland owned by the monarch 'in right of the Crown'. It was separated from the Crown Estate of the United Kingdom under the Scotland Act 2016. It is ...
Ferguslie Park is a residential suburb at the north-west extremity of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is bordered by the town of Linwood to the west and Glasgow Airport to the north. Ferguslie Park has history of being among the most deprived communities in Scotland. Attempts have been made at regeneration despite significant challenges.
This category contains articles on settlements in Scotland that have been abandoned through human or natural causes. Some settlement sites may have been reoccupied at a later date. Some settlement sites may have been reoccupied at a later date.
When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village consisting of several small houses without roofs. [7] [8] William Graham Watt of Skaill House, [9] a son of the local laird who was a self-taught geologist, began an amateur excavation of the site, but after four houses were uncovered, work was abandoned in 1868. [10]