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From a prominent position looking out over the busy A90 towards Muchalls and the sea. The castle was built by the Burnetts of Leys between 1619-1627 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchalls_Castle )
©Alan Thomson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Muchalls Castle is on the wooded hill in the background.
©Stanley Howe
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©Mike Pennington
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©Stanley Howe
Dist:0.5km<br/>Photographer is standing just south of drystone wall along old agricultural track.
©C Michael Hogan
Dist:0.5km<br/>Gorse and rushes in the fields in front of the main Aberdeen-Dundee railway line, here running on an embankment before entering a cutting.
©Mike Pennington
Dist:0.6km<br/>Taken from a passing train heading towards Aberdeen.
©Carl Farnell
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking at oncoming northbound traffic. Note the right-of-way of the dual carriageway has been recently disturbed by laying of pipes for the Stonehaven new sewerage project.
©C Michael Hogan
Dist:0.7km<br/>The burn flows through a tranquil pool in the hollow here among the whins before disappearing over the edge of the cliff in a waterfall.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.7km<br/>The homes in the background are on the Grim Brigs headland and at the coastal verge of the village of Muchalls.
©C Michael Hogan
Dist:0.8km<br/>This chasm has been carved by the burn across the grain of the rocks below, probably exlpoiting a fault. The Carlin Craigs are in the middle of the bay, and the farther headland is Grim Brigs.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.8km<br/>Burn of Muchalls waterfall drops over two falls into the sea near Doonies Point
©Alan Thomson
Dist:0.8km<br/>The dyke of pink rock in the middle ground is felsite a fine grained igneous rock.
©Russell Lett
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©Russell Lett
Dist:0.8km<br/>A mosaic of tesserae in earth colours showing a royal crown and the word 'PEACE' above with the date '1919' below, set in a shield of pinkish concrete. Most unusual among war memorials in actually celebrating peace as opposed to commemorating war.
©Colin Kinnear

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