Qualla: Inverurie https://qualla.com/inverurie en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/m/inverurie-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Inverurie https://qualla.com/inverurie Inverurie: Introduction https://qualla.com/inverurie/ Photo credit Ian Brackenridge, CC BY-SA 2.0. In the middle of Inverurie's triangular town square stands a single Gordon Highlander. He is cast in bronze, atop the Inverurie and District War Memorial, looking out across the market town as if still on watch. He has been there since 1923. The Highlanders he commemorates came from these streets and the farms beyond - the Garioch, pronounced "geery," the strath of the River Don at the heart of Aberdeenshire. Inverurie itself takes its name from the Gaelic Inbhir Uraidh, "confluence of the Ury," because the River Ury joins the Don just south of the town. The hill of Bennachie rises ten miles to the west, an isolated peak that has been a navigational landmark since the Picts. The town below has been settled, in one form or another, for at least three thousand years.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/m/inverurie-wp/gfnm-inverurie-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inverurie: Three Thousand Years Underfoot https://qualla.com/inverurie/ Photo credit stephen samson, CC BY-SA 2.0. When archaeologists excavated the Thainstone Business Park in 2018, they uncovered a Middle Bronze Age roundhouse from between 1550 and 1150 BC, a cremation cemetery whose ashes were placed inside ceramic urns, evidence of Late Bronze Age cremation practices from the centuries th...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/m/inverurie-wp/gfnm-inverurie-three-thousand-years-underfoot.mp3 0:06 2 full Inverurie: The Bass and the Kirk https://qualla.com/inverurie/ Photo credit Russ Hamer, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the southern edge of the town rises a small flat-topped mound called the Bass of Inverurie. Tradition holds that it was raised by David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of King Malcolm IV, in the late twelfth century - the motte of a Norman-style castle that has otherwise vanished...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/m/inverurie-wp/gfnm-inverurie-the-bass-and-the-kirk.mp3 0:06 3 full Inverurie: Three Battles https://qualla.com/inverurie/ Photo credit JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0. Three significant battles were fought in or near Inverurie. The first, in 1308, was the Battle of Inverurie - the climax of Robert Bruce's campaign against his Scottish enemies, the Comyns, after the earlier indecisive skirmish at Slioch the previous Christmas. The second, in 141...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/m/inverurie-wp/gfnm-inverurie-three-battles.mp3 0:06 4 full Inverurie: Locomotives, Paper, and Oil https://qualla.com/inverurie/ Photo credit Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Great North of Scotland Railway built its locomotive construction and repair works on a 15-acre site at Inverurie. The works opened in 1903 and closed in 1969, after carrying a generation of north-east men through the trades of steam engineering. Inverurie Locomotive Works F....

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/m/inverurie-wp/gfnm-inverurie-locomotives-paper-and-oil.mp3 0:06 5 full Inverurie: A French Twin and a Scots Tongue https://qualla.com/inverurie/ Photo credit Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 15 October 2016, Inverurie was officially twinned with Bagneres-de-Bigorre, a Pyrenean spa town in southern France. The partnership has built school exchanges and ceilidhs, and the loss of Fiona Peebles in 2023 - the Scottish anchor of the twinning - was mourned in both towns....

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