What is Maud, Aberdeenshire?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} [[Image:Maud From Station.jpg|thumb|Maud village, seen from the old station]] '''Maud''' ([[Scottish Gaelic language|Gaelic]]: ''Am Mòd'') is a small town in the [[Buchan]] area of the [[Scotland|Scottish]] county of [[Aberdeenshire]]. Population 610 (2004). Located 13 miles west of [[Peterhead]] on the [[South Ugie Water]],<ref>*[http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townfirst4046.html Gazetteer of Scotland: Maud, Aberdeenshire]</ref> Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the [[Formartine and Buchan Railway]] that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, but has always been the meeting place of six roads. It has had a variety of names: * '''Bank of Behitch''' * '''Brucklay''' * '''New Maud''' the 'New' falling out of use leading to its current name. ==References== {{reflist}} {{coord|57.52210|N|2.12687|W|region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(NJ925480)|display=title}} {{UK-stub}} [[Category:Towns in Aberdeenshire]]