Maud, Aberdeenshire

Maud (Gaelic: Am Mòd) is a small town in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire. Population 610 (2004). 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. It has had a variety of names:
 Bank of Behitch
 Brucklay
 New Maud
the 'New' falling out of use leading to its current name.

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Category:Towns in Aberdeenshire