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Peterhead

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Peterhead (Ceann Phàdraig, Peterheid) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [1]

79 relations: Aberdeen, Aberdeen Airport, Aberdeen railway station, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeenshire (historic), Alexander Hall (soccer), Apostleship of the Sea, Area committee, Arthur D. Hay, Ålesund, Banff and Buchan, Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency), Banffshire and Buchan Coast (Scottish Parliament constituency), Barry and Stuart, Beeching cuts, Borders Railway, Buchan, Buchanhaven, Burgh, Charles Creighton, Clerkhill, Community council, Cruise ship, Developmental coordination disorder, Donald Manson, Dyslexia, Eric Temple Bell, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Formartine and Buchan Railway, Frederick Martin (politician), Galashiels railway station, George Keith (missionary), George Kynoch (businessman), Gilbert Mair (trader), Grampian, Great Britain, Great North of Scotland Railway, HM Prison Peterhead, Jacobite rising of 1745, Jacobite risings, James Francis Edward Keith, James Niven, James Wales (artist), Jamie McLeary, Jim Lovie, List of Provosts of Peterhead, Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929, Local government areas of Scotland (1973–1996), Margaret Jope, Marino Keith, ..., Morris Wells, NorthConnect, Peter Buchan, Peter Mullan, Peterhead Academy, Peterhead Docks railway station, Peterhead F.C., Peterhead Power Station, Peterhead railway station, Peterhead RFC, Port, RAF Buchan, RRH Buchan, Scotland, Scottish Football League, Scottish League Two, Scottish Rugby Union, Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet, Small burgh, Thomas Abernethy (explorer), United Kingdom census, 2011, Waves Radio, Whaler, Whaling in Scotland, William Aitken (footballer), William Gibson (Liberal Party of Canada politician), William Hay (architect), World War II, Worsted. Expand index (29 more) »

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.

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Aberdeen Airport

Aberdeen International Airport (Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanta Obar Dheathain) is an international airport, located at Dyce, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, approximately northwest of Aberdeen city centre.

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Aberdeen railway station

Aberdeen railway station is the only railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Aberdeenshire (historic)

Aberdeenshire or the County of Aberdeen (Coontie o Aiberdeen, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is a historic county and registration county of Scotland.

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Alexander Hall (soccer)

Alexander Noble "Alex" Hall (3 December 1880 – September 25, 1943) was a Scottish amateur football (soccer) player who competed for Canada in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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Apostleship of the Sea

The Apostleship of the Sea is an agency of the Catholic Church.

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Area committee

Many large local government councils in the United Kingdom have a system of area committees, with responsibility for services in a particular part of the area covered by the council.

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Arthur D. Hay

Arthur Douglas Hay (1884–1952) was an American attorney and judge in Oregon.

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Ålesund

Ålesund is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

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Banff and Buchan

Banff and Buchan is a committee area of the Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland.

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Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency)

Banff and Buchan is a constituency of the British House of Commons, located in the north-east of Scotland within the Aberdeenshire council area.

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Banffshire and Buchan Coast (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Banffshire and Buchan Coast is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Barry and Stuart

Barry and Stuart (Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod) are two Scottish BAFTA nominated magicians and comedians whose work has been seen on television and on stage around the world.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Borders Railway

The Borders Railway connects the city of Edinburgh with Galashiels and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.

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Buchan

Buchan is one of the six committee areas and administrative areas of Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland.

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Buchanhaven

Buchanhaven is a village within the town of Peterhead in the district of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, in northeastern Scotland.

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Burgh

A burgh was an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town, or toun in Scots.

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Charles Creighton

Charles Creighton (22 November 1847 – 18 July 1927) was a British physician and medical author.

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Clerkhill

Clerkhill is an area of the town of Peterhead in north east Scotland.

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Community council

A community council is a public representative body in Great Britain.

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Cruise ship

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, when the voyage itself, the ship's amenities, and sometimes the different destinations along the way (i.e., ports of call), are part of the experience.

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Developmental coordination disorder

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD), also known as developmental dyspraxia or simply dyspraxia, is a chronic neurological disorder beginning in childhood.

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Donald Manson

Donald Manson (1792–1880) was a renowned ice master and whaling captain in the northern reaches of the Arctic Ocean in the 19th century.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence.

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Eric Temple Bell

Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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Formartine and Buchan Railway

The Formartine and Buchan Railway was a railway in the north east of Scotland.

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Frederick Martin (politician)

Frederick Martin CBE (23 October 1882 – 18 January 1950) was a Scottish Liberal, later Labour politician and journalist.

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Galashiels railway station

Galashiels railway station serves the town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland.

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George Keith (missionary)

George Keith (1638/9 – 27 March 1716) was a Scottish missionary.

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George Kynoch (businessman)

George Kynoch (22 August 1834 – 28 February 1891) was the founder of IMI plc, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering businesses.

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Gilbert Mair (trader)

Gilbert Mair (Peterhead, Scotland, 23 May 1799 – Whangarei, 16 July 1857) was a sailor and a merchant trader who visited New Zealand for the first time when he was twenty, and lived there from 1824 till his death.

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Grampian

Grampian (Roinn a' Mhonaidh in Gaelic) was a local government region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Great North of Scotland Railway

The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR/GNoSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the north-east of the country.

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HM Prison Peterhead

HMP Peterhead was a prison in the town of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, operating from 1888 to 2013.

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Jacobite rising of 1745

The Jacobite rising of 1745 or 'The '45' (Bliadhna Theàrlaich, "The Year of Charles") is the name commonly used for the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the House of Stuart.

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Jacobite risings

The Jacobite risings, also known as the Jacobite rebellions or the War of the British Succession, were a series of uprisings, rebellions, and wars in Great Britain and Ireland occurring between 1688 and 1746.

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James Francis Edward Keith

The Hon. James Francis Edward Keith (11 June 1696 – 14 October 1758) was a Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal.

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James Niven

James Niven (12 August 1851 – 30 September 1925) was a Scottish physician most famous for his work during the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 as Manchester's Medical Officer of Health.

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James Wales (artist)

James Wales (1747–1795) was a Scottish artist.

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Jamie McLeary

James Robert Ewan McLeary (born 2 April 1981) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the Challenge Tour.

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Jim Lovie

James Theirs Harrison Lovie (born 19 September 1932) is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a left winger.

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List of Provosts of Peterhead

The Provost of Peterhead was the head of the Peterhead burgh council in Scotland.

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Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo 5 c. 25) reorganised local government in Scotland from 1930, introducing joint county councils, large and small burghs and district councils.

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Local government areas of Scotland (1973–1996)

The local government areas of Scotland were redefined by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and redefined again by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.

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Margaret Jope

Margaret Jope (1913–2004) was a Scottish biochemist, born as Henrietta Margaret Halliday in Peterhead, Scotland.

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Marino Keith

Marino Keith (born 16 December 1974) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward.

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Morris Wells

Morris Wells are a series of natural springs in eastern Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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NorthConnect

The NorthConnect (also known as Scotland–Norway interconnector) is a proposed 1,400 MW HVDC interconnector over the floor of the North Sea.

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Peter Buchan

Peter Buchan (1790 – 19 September 1854), Scottish was a Scottish editor, publisher, and collector of ballads and folktales.

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Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan (born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker.

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Peterhead Academy

Peterhead Academy is a six-year Comprehensive Community School in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Peterhead Docks railway station

Peterhead Docks railway station was a goods railway station in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

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Peterhead F.C.

Peterhead Football Club are a football club based in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Peterhead Power Station

Peterhead power station is a multi unit station owned and operated by SSE plc near Boddam and the A90, just south of Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire in the north east of Scotland.

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Peterhead railway station

For the railway station in Adelaide, Australia, see Peterhead railway station, Adelaide. Peterhead railway station was a railway station in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

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Peterhead RFC

Peterhead Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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RAF Buchan

Royal Air Force station Buchan or more simply RAF Buchan is a former Royal Air Force station near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.

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RRH Buchan

Remote Radar Head Buchan or RRH Buchan is an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scottish Football League

The Scottish Football League (SFL) was a league featuring professional and semi-professional football clubs mostly from Scotland.

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Scottish League Two

The Scottish League Two, known for sponsorship reasons as the Ladbrokes League Two, is the fourth tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, the league competition for men's professional football clubs in Scotland.

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Scottish Rugby Union

The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU; Aonadh Rugbaidh na h-Alba) is the governing body of rugby union in Scotland.

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Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet

Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet, (166918 November 1749) served as lieutenant-governor of the Colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware, 171726.

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Small burgh

Small burghs were units of local government in Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 in 1930.

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Thomas Abernethy (explorer)

Thomas Abernethy (1803–1860) was a Scottish seafarer, gunner in the Royal Navy, and polar explorer.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Waves Radio

Waves Radio is a local radio station based in Peterhead, North East Scotland.

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Whaler

A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized ship, designed for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.

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Whaling in Scotland

The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling places.

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William Aitken (footballer)

William John Aitken (2 February 1894 – 9 August 1973) was a Scottish footballer and football manager.

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William Gibson (Liberal Party of Canada politician)

William Gibson (August 7, 1849 – May 4, 1914) was a Canadian politician.

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William Hay (architect)

William Hay (17 May 1818 – 30 May 1888) was a Scottish architect who was actively working internationally from 1842 to 1887.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Worsted

Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterhead

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