Kincorth is a suburb located to the south of
Aberdeen
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,
Scotland
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. The name is a corruption of the
Scottish Gaelic
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"Ceann Coirthe", which probably refers to an old pillar or
standing stone
A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright rock (geology), stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the Eur ...
(''coirthe''). Kincorth is known as the
garden estate of Aberdeen, and its plan originated in a competition launched in 1936 and won by Robert Gardner-Medwin, Denis Winston (who went on to become the
University of Sydney's first Professor of Town Planning) and
Clifford Holliday.
[ ] It also has the Kincorth hill nature reserve known locally as the Gramps (Grampian mountains)The area is served by local high school
Lochside Academy.
References
Areas of Aberdeen
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