Maud, Aberdeenshire

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Maud is a small town in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire.

Located 13 miles west of Peterhead Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine & Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, but has always been the meeting place of six roads. It has had a variety of names:

Bank of Behitch
Brucklay
New Maud

the 'New' falling out of use to give it its current name.

The Village

Railway station, which closed in 1979. Walks can be taken along the old railway lines.
The mart or livestock market until recently, selling local livestock.
Hospital for the elderly, which was formerly a poorhouse that opened in about 1868.

External links

[Maud's entry in the Gazetteer of Scotland]
[Maud Railway Station Museum]
*[Map sources] for Maud, Aberdeenshire

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