CYCLING TURRIFF, FYVIE & FORMARTINE For information on the health benefits of cycling and safety advice please visit: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/ ABERDEENSHIRE The Formartine Area of Aberdeenshire Council has a dramatic coastline, extensive sandy dunes to the south and rocky cliffs to the north which transportation/cycling/ are home to a wide range of bird life. Inland, agriculture dominates. Dissected by the River Ythan and its tributaries, the estuary of the Ythan If you require further copies of our cycling maps or would like to opens out into the Sands of Forvie National Nature Reserve. Some of give any feedback please contact: TURRIFF, FYVIE & the routes in the leaflet are closely linked to the Formartine and Buchan Way. Formerly a railway line it is now a popular cycle, walkway and The Travel Planning Officer FORMARTINE nature corridor that stretches for 54 miles from Aberdeen to Peterhead Aberdeenshire Council and Fraserburgh. Infrastructure Services Woodhill House Most of the cycle routes described in this leaflet have been designed to cater for all ages and abilities and where possible, off-road, family and Westburn Road commuter routes have been selected. Some routes require more effort Aberdeenshire than others. AB16 5GB Tel: 01224 664773 The routes in this leaflet show distance, effort required and tourist Email: [email protected] attractions. Most routes use the quieter roads but may involve short stretches of main ‘A’ roads to continue the route. Great care should be www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/ taken at all times whilst cycling, particularly on these busy stretches of transportation/cycling/ road. Please let large vehicles pass and remember you may encounter forestry operations off-road. Please keep well clear and observe signs Tourist information and diversions for your safety. For up-to-date information on Aberdeen City & Shire, contact We advise that you also take an O.S map with you. While the routes the Visitor Information Centre in Aberdeen at: featured follow quiet roads and key features have been identified, an 23 Union Street O.S map will guide you further in the area. LandRanger 1:50,000 Nos Aberdeen 29, 37 & 38. AB11 5BP To plan any journeys using public transport visit Tel: 01224 269180 www.travelinescotland.com or call 0871 200 22 33. Email: [email protected] Area covered by this map www.aberdeen-grampian.com Supported by the following partners:

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B9170 R FeaturedNational Cycleroute Networktraffic-free route number Yowlie Burn East Shethin Formartine & Buchan Way Moss-Side Cottages Ord Hill Start point indicating direction Tillyhilt Cottages Douglashead Cottage Red Moss Farm National Cycle Network route number Point of interest Sonach Croft StartTake carepoint indicating direction Redmoss Tillycairnie Wood of Ythsie Little Ythsie Cottages PointRailway of interestwith station Cardrum Steading Tarves Take care Hill of Ythsie 0 Kilometres Tullo 1 2 3 Railway with station Hill of Braiklay Croft Barahs Croft The Sonach Backhill Ythsie M 0 Miles 1 2 Haddo House Den Wood Tullo Cottage Aberdeenshire Council. www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk.+ Produced+ by CycleCity Guides www.cyclecityguides.co.uk + All rights reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011. Aberdeenshire Council and CycleCity Guides accept no responsiblity for omisssions or errors. PITMEDDEN TO UDNY STATION via FORMARTINE+ Boat Wood Ythsie & BUCHANDinneswood Garage WAY (11 miles) Easy

Yowlie Burn Mill of Dumbreck Start point: Pitmedden Car Park Hillhead of Milton Wood Ardlethen Points of interest Pitmedden House: A 17th-century house, remodelled in 1853 and in 1954. There is also an extensiveNewseat Of T17th-centuryolquhon Tree Cottage Newseat of five-acre walled garden, which isB999 open to Dumbreck Cottage the public, and featuresNewseat sundials, Of pavilions Tolquhon Cottage and fountains dotted among flower beds. Milton Croft Formartine and Buchan Way: The Hillhead Plantation Formartine and Buchan Way is an exciting and safe path suitable for cyclists Mains of Hillhead of Mains Of Tolquhon Cottges Drumbreck Cottages Esslemont of all abilities. The route is mostly level as it is built on the bed of the former Formartine and Buchan railway. Coulliehare Cottage A920 Stripe Burn

Raitshill Cottage Woodside Cottage B999 FeaturedCaird Seat route Cottage on-road Bronie Burn Mill of Torry Cottage Featured route traffic-free Pitmedden Formartine & Buchan Way National Cycle Network route number Start point indicatingCairdseat direction Start point indicatingCottages direction Point of interest B9000 A920 Take care Railway with stationAtholhill Steading

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Foveran Burn Tillery Burn Minnes Savoch Cottages A90 A975 Hill of Minnes Foveran Mains of Foveran North Pitscaff Cottage Damhead Start point: Market Street Car Park, beside the River Ythan in Ellon. East Pitscaff Points of interest

Ra Ellon:ck The Riverside Park in Ellon offers walkways alongside the Burn Blair Lodge Cairnie Law RiverHill Of Ardo Ythan, from which herons, salmon, trout and otters may be observed. The Sands of Forvie:Frogmore Forvie Farm National Nature Reserve has the Newtyle Paddock fifth largest Dubbystylesand dune Croft system in Britain, and the least disturbed by human activity. The reserve contains Aikenshillthe largest Cottages breeding colony of Sands of Forvie eider duck in Britain. (Newburgh and River Ythan) The Bungalow

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R Upper Bogtama Inverythan iv through undulating countryside. e r Tifty Aisling Y th There are some long climbs a n linking picturesque villages along Rappla Wood n r u B992 B the way. h g u e k Towith Mapleridge S Start point: The carFarm park in Home Farm Cottages nie Burn Turriff just north of the Mercat + Low Backhill Blindmills Hill North Lodge Cross. Broom Hill Gordonstown Hill Featured route on-road North Haddo Parkburn Belt Points of interest Featured route traffic-free Old Home Farm Fyvie Castle: The earliest FeaturedFormartine route & Buchan on-road Way Mid Haddo B9005 Quarrypark Wood parts of Fyvie Castle date from NationalFeatured Cycleroute Networktraffic-free route number Cockhill Wood Gordonstown Gallows the13th century. Fyvie was the StartFormartine point indicating& Buchan direction Way Hill Woodhead n Brownhill Wood site of an open-air court heldr by Point of interest South Haddo u National Cycle Network route number M B Robert the Bruce andatth eCharlesw's I Take care StartMount point Pleasant indicating direction lived there as a child. The castle Railway with station Point of interest Middlehill Croft n 0 Kilometres 1 2 3 Porterfield Cottage B9001 Braehead Fyvie occupies a commandingBlack Hillock position Take care Brownhill River Ythan on the left bank of the River 0 Miles Railway with station1 2 Atnach Clattie Bur The Gammons Wood A947 Ythan. Great enshrouding woods

F o Den Wood r doun Burn recede from it to leafy hills where the sunlight only penetrates dimly. Aberdeenshire Council. www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk Produced by CycleCity Guides www.cyclecityguides.co.uk All rights reserved Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011. Aberdeenshire Council and CycleCity Guides accept no responsiblity for omisssions or errors. TURRIFF CIRCULAR via HILL OF BRACKANS AND DELGATIE

Craigston Burn + (11 miles) Moderate Cot Burn

Fintry This is a short ride around the fertile The Bungalow farmlands of Turriff. Ferniestripe Bungalow A947 Cotburn Start point: LowerTurriff Blackburn Square. Wood of Ferniestripe Points of interest Slackadale Croft Bordorren Delgatie Castle: A castle has stood on

the site since the year 1030 AD, although Kinbate Croft the earliest parts of the castle standing Luncarty Bogs of Plaidy today wereWhite built Stripe between 1570 and 1579. Crossfields WindyAdditional Knowes wings and a chapel were Pineview added in 1743. BurnMary, Of Luncarty Queen of Scots, was a guest at the castle in 1562 after the B9105 Hill of Brackans Crossfields Stripe Battle of Corrichie. Little Whiterashes Hill of Cotburn

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