Original: Located 13 miles west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water , \* Gazetteer of Scotland : Maud , Aberdeenshire Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead , but has always been the meeting place of six roads .
Simplified: Located 13 miles west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water , \* Gazetteer Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead , but has always been the meeting place of six roads .