Oldmeldrum
Sign in to saveOldmeldrum (commonly known as Meldrum) is a village and parish in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, not far from Inverurie in North East Scotland. Oldmeldrum is home to one of the oldest whisky distilleries in Scotland, Glen Garioch, which was built in 1797. Local industries are agriculture and engineering services connected to the oil industry in Aberdeen.
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Place details
- Locality
- Oldmeldrum
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 3,230
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Oldmeldrum
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Meall Druim
- UK place.static_image
- Oldmeldrum Town Hall (geograph 3920107).jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Oldmeldrum Town Hall
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NJ808272
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- UK place.post_town
- INVERURIE
- UK place.postcode_district
- AB51
- UK place.postcode_area
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +3140
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.oldmeldrum.org.uk
- Image
- Sunrise over Meldrum.jpg
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- Aberdeenshire
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- Andrew Rossi
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Oldmeldrum (commonly known as Meldrum) is a village and parish in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, not far from Inverurie in North East Scotland. Oldmeldrum is home to one of the oldest whisky distilleries in Scotland, Glen Garioch, which was built in 1797. Local industries are agriculture and engineering services connected to the oil industry in Aberdeen.
== Prehistory and archaeology == Archaeological excavations carried out in advance of the construction of a new bypass road around the north of Oldmeldrum in the summer of 2005 revealed the remains of three Bronze Age ring-ditch roundhouses. Archaeologists believe these formed part of an area of open settlement, indicating that the first settlement at Oldmeldrum dates to around 3500 years ago.