Echt, Aberdeenshire

Echt
Scottish Gaelic: *Eicht*
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 UK Scotland 57°08′26″N 2°26′04″W / 57.14054°N 2.43455°W

Echt (Scottish Gaelic: Eicht) is an Aberdeenshire crossroads village in northeast Scotland with a population of approximately 300 people. Echt has a number of prehistoric remains, including the Barmekin of Echt^[1] 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.^[2]

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

Echt was the birthplace, in 1896, of Chris Guthrie, the fictional heroine of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy A Scots Quair.^[3] 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.^[4]

References

^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Barmekin Of Echt (18522)". Canmore. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Cullerlie (18548)". Canmore. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
^ 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)

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[1] Historic Environment Scotland. "Barmekin Of Echt (18522)". Canmore. Retrieved 9 April 2021.

[2] Historic Environment Scotland. "Cullerlie (18548)". Canmore. Retrieved 9 April 2021.

[3] Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (2015), Sunset Song, Polygon, Edinburgh, p. 28, ISBN 9781846973574,

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

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v t e 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

v t e Areas and primary settlements in Aberdeenshire (see also: Aberdeen City)
in Banff and Buchan	Aberchirder Banff Fraserburgh Gardenstown Inverallochy and Cairnbulg Macduff Portsoy Rosehearty Sandhaven Whitehills
in Buchan	Boddam Crimond Cruden Bay Fetterangus Hatton Longside Maud Mintlaw New Deer New Pitsligo Peterhead St Combs St Fergus Strichen Stuartfield
in Formartine	Balmedie Cuminestown Ellon Fyvie Newburgh Oldmeldrum Pitmedden Potterton Rothienorman Tarves Turriff
in Garioch	Blackburn Insch Inverurie Kemnay Kintore Newmachar Westhill
in Kincardine and Mearns	Drumoak Fettercairn Gourdon Inverbervie Johnshaven Laurencekirk Luthermuir Newtonhill Portlethen St Cyrus Stonehaven
in Marr	Aboyne Alford Ballater Banchory Braemar Huntly Lumphanan Tarland Torphins

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