Aberdeenshire & Moray

Towns & Villages

INVERURIE

Inverurie is a very pleasant town still retaining its individual character with many small independent local traders in its centre.

Here you can buy ironmongery from an ironmongers, electrical goods from a small electrical store, garden equipment from a local garden centre. Unfortunately this is set to change with the building of an out-of-town retail park with all the big names that help take away a town's individuality.

  
Inverurie Town Hall
 Photo: John Aldersey-Williams CCL
 

The Bass of Inverurie, Norman castle mound - Photo: Colin Smith CCL

It was here during a famous battle in 1307 that the mighty Robert the Bruce defeated John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, cousin of the ‘Red Comyn’ who had been killed by Bruce at Dumfries a year earlier. Overshadowed by the hill of Bennachie and its Pictish hillfort, the village lies on a noted game fishing river beside which are the ruins of Inverurie Castle. There are several prehistoric sites here and historians believe the battle of Mons Graupis may have taken place at Inverurie in 84AD. Then. Scottish warriors were soundly defeated by the Romans led by Agricola in a battle that created the name ‘Grampians’.