Echt, Aberdeenshire
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| OS grid reference | NJ739055 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WESTHILL |
| Postcode district | AB32 |
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Echt (Scottish Gaelic: Eicht) is a crossroads village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.[1] Echt has a number of prehistoric remains, including the Barmekin of Echt, a prehistoric hillfort on a hill to the northwest.[2] There is also the Cullerlie stone circle near Sunhoney Farm, which may date from the Bronze Age.[3]
Echt contains a church, a village shop and post office, a restaurant (Echt Tandoori), and a pleasure park with a children's play area. Local football matches are also held there. The annual Echt Show, a farmers' show, is held on the second Saturday in July.
It is centred on the junction of the B977 Dunecht to Banchory road and the B9119 Kingsford to Ordie road. It is some 12+1⁄2 miles (20.1 km) from the city of Aberdeen.
Literary associations
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
- ^ "Echt Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Barmekin Of Echt (Site no. NJ70NW 1)". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Cullerlie (Site no. NJ70SE 2)". Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (2015), Sunset Song, Polygon, Edinburgh, p. 28, ISBN 9781846973574,
- ^ 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
- Baxter, Alison (2024), Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ISBN 9798340910509
External links
- Echt in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- Map sources for Echt, Aberdeenshire
- Virtual Eagle Tour of Barmekin Hill Archived 27 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine