Allanaquoich is a locality on

Mar Lodge Estate Mar Lodge Estate is a highland estate in western Aberdeenshire, Scotland, which has been owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) since 1995. Its principal building, Mar Lodge, is about west of the village of Braemar. The esta ...

Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Aberdeenshire (historic), Aberdeenshire, which had substantial ...

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

. ''Allanaquoich'' is little more than a farm house now although it once could have been described as a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

. It is locate
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on a slight rise to the East of the

Quoich Water The River Quoich is a tributary of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It flows in a generally southerly direction and is about 15 km long (including its upper reaches, known as Quoich Water, above the confl ...

. A table in ''Dixon & Green (1995)'' shows the number of tenants at ''Allanaquoich'' being reduced as part of the

Highland Clearances The Highland Clearances ( , the "eviction of the Gaels") were the evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860. The first phase resulted from Scottish Agricultural R ...

from 18 tenants in 1739 to just 1 by 1810 as a result. Image:allanaquoich_from_linnofdeeroad_03SEP06.jpg , Allanaquoich from the Linn of Dee road (September 2006) Image:quoichcottage.jpg , Quoich Cottage from the Linn of Dee road (21AUG07) Image:allanaquoich.jpg , General view of Allanaquoich from the Linn of Dee road (07MAR04)

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* {{Citation , title= Mar Lodge Estate Grampian : An Archaeological Survey , first=P.J. , last=Dixon , first2=S.T. , last2=Green , publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh , year=1995 Buildings and structures on Mar Lodge Estate Places and place names on Mar Lodge Estate

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