Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Mintlaw, literally meaning a smooth, flat place, a large village in Aberdeenshire. This was a planned Scottish village built around 1813 by James Ferguson the third Laird of Pitfour. Victorian times saw the coming of the railway, the Maud to Peterhead line being built in the 1860s. Mintlaw was a scheduled stop on this line. The station was built a little to the west of the village; perhaps because this was more convenient for the Ferguson family of Pitfour and the Russell family of Aden. Mintlaw Station was the postal address for this whole district for many years until it closed in the 1960's.
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