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ituated approximately six miles west of
Old Deer,
the village of New Deer is one of the four villages founded by James Ferguson
of Pitlour during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
James Ferguson (1734-1820) was responsible for changing much of the landscape in this area of Aberdeenshire, including planting many miles of hawthorn hedging thoughout the area and creating a huge lake and adding a miniature of the Temple of Theseus in Athens! 
f the four villages created by James Ferguson, New Deer is the largest and
certainly the most important. The other three villages are Longside, begun in
1801 with it's pretty tree-lined street and some would say as pretty as Old
Deer itself. Mintlaw (a few miles to the west of Longside) and started at the
same time, has bowed to the demands of progress and now has a large roundabout
to facilitate ease of traffic between Aberdeenshire's larger towns.
Stuartfield, just over a mile from Old Deer, was created by John Burnett, the Laird of Crichie and a relative of James Ferguson. This village is named in honour of Burnett's grandfather Captain John Stuart |
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