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Kittybrewster ( gd, Cuidhe Briste) is an area within
Within the area the A9012 road joins the A978 road; there are also several railway tracks, one of which follows the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal. The name Kittybrewster has been given to three railway stations over the years, including Aberdeen's original main railway station for routes to the north (on the
Aberdeen
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, Scotland
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, north of the city centre and roughly south-west of Old Aberdeen
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.
Transport
Within the area the A9012 road joins the A978 road; there are also several railway tracks, one of which follows the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal. The name Kittybrewster has been given to three railway stations over the years, including Aberdeen's original main railway station for routes to the north (on the Great North of Scotland Railway
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). All three stations are now gone, although the route north continues.
Facilities
The area now contains a small number of bars, the Kittybrewster and Woodside Bowling Club, Kittybrewster Primary School, two retail parks (on the sites of former railway yards), a council depot (on the site of one of the old and closed railway stations) and themoderne
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-styled Northern Hotel.
History
The name first appears an official document of 1615, although the lands around were known as the Browster lands in 1376; in 1675 it appeared again as "Kettiebrauster". It has a Celtic derivation from ''Cuitan Briste'', meaning "broken fold". (''Cuitan'', dim. of ''cuit'', fold (modern Gaelic ''cuidhe''); ''briste'', broken.) Usually, folds for cattle had water near them. Kittybrewster was in the den now called Berryden, which means watery (''bùrnach'') den.Milne, John. ''Celtic place-names in Aberdeenshire'' (1912) Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1912–92) was born at Powis House, Kittybrewster, and took the name as histerritorial designation
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when he was given a baronetcy
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in 1964.
See also
* Aberdeen Kittybrewster railway stationReferences
External links
* , a genealogical site {{Areas of Aberdeen Areas of Aberdeen