Tillydrone is an area of

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, Scotland. Lying north of the city centre and slightly north-west of

Old Aberdeen Old Aberdeen is part of Aberdeen in Scotland. Old Aberdeen was originally a separate burgh, which was erected into a burgh of barony on 26 December 1489. It was incorporated into adjacent Aberdeen by Act of Parliament in 1891. It retains the sta ...

, it is roughly bounded by the River Don, St Machar Drive, and the main Aberdeen-Inverness

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line. The name is a corruption of the

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"Tulach Droighne", meaning a knoll with thorn trees growing on it. The name is somewhat older than the housing estate which essentially comprises the area. It is colloquially referred to as Tilly. The estate was built as

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and includes

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s and terraced

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flats in addition to some low-rise terraced houses. As with most council housing stock in the United Kingdom, some of these properties have been purchased by their occupants. The proximity of the area to the

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results in some of the housing being rented to students. The area has a number of shops and businesses including a pharmacy, a post office and an award winning butcher shop. There are also a school and care facilities for elderly people run by

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. There is a Church of Scotland parish church - Saint George's Tillydrone Church - and the church building is regularly used for community meetings and by community groups such as the Girls' Brigade and Tillydrone Vision. The Scottish charity, Men and Boys Eating and Exercise Disorders Service SC044378 is based in Aberdeen. Between the main part of Tillydrone and the River Don is an extensive area of open and wooded land, which leads into the city's

Seaton Park Seaton Park is a public park in the Old Aberdeen area of Aberdeen, Scotland. One of the city's biggest parks, it was bought by the city for use as a public park in 1947 from Major Malcolm Vivian Hay, a cryptographer during the First World War a ...

. At the edge of this, alongside Tillydrone Road, is the Wallace Tower, a turreted townhouse typical of pre- Georgian Aberdeen architecture which was moved stone by stone from its original city-centre location at the time of the construction of a

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shop next to the St. Nicholas Shopping Centre.

Aberdeen Community Energy Aberdeen Community Energy operate a micro hydro scheme at Tillydrone on the River Don, Aberdeen. History Aberdeen Community Energy (ACE) is the trading name of Donside Community Hydro Limited, a Community Benefit Society set up in 2015 to build a ...

operate a 100kW hydro scheme on the site of the former Donside Papermill. An Aberdeen City Council "blueprint" has earmarked the area for extensive redevelopment along with five other areas within Aberdeen. The Diamond Bridge was constructed and opened in June 2016 over the River Don connecting the Tillydrone area with

Bridge of Don Bridge of Don is a suburb in the north of Aberdeen, Scotland. In , the Bridge of Don electoral ward was estimated to have a population of 19,545. Bridge of Don is split into four areas for statistical purposes by Aberdeen City Council and Poli ...

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