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Tillydrone - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 57°10′14″N 2°06′56″W / 57.1706°N 2.1156°W

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Tillydrone Scottish Gaelic: Tulach Droighne Tilly
Terraced low-rise ex-council housing in Tillydrone
Tillydrone Location within the Aberdeen City council area Show map of Aberdeen City council area Tillydrone Location within Scotland Show map of Scotland
Population	3,395 ^[1]
OS grid reference	NJ931088
Council area	Aberdeen City
Lieutenancy area	Aberdeen
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ABERDEEN
Postcode district	AB24
Dialling code	01224

Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish

UK Parliament	Aberdeen North
Scottish Parliament	Aberdeen Central
Website	aberdeencity.gov.uk
List of places UK Scotland 57°10′14″N 2°06′56″W / 57.1706°N 2.1156°W / 57.1706; -2.1156

Tillydrone is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. Lying north of the city centre and slightly north-west of Old Aberdeen, it is roughly bounded by the River Don, St Machar Drive, and the main Aberdeen-Inverness railway line.^[2]

The name is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic "Tulach Droighne", meaning a knoll with thorn trees growing on it. The name is somewhat older than the housing estate which essentially comprises the area. It is colloquially referred to as Tilly. The estate was built as council housing and includes tower blocks and terraced tenement flats in addition to some low-rise terraced houses. As with most council housing stock in the United Kingdom, some of these properties have been purchased by their occupants. The proximity of the area to the University of Aberdeen results in some of the housing being rented to students.

Tillydrone is considered to be an area of Aberdeen where poverty is commonplace and social class is low. The area has a number of shops and businesses including a pharmacy, a post office and an award winning butcher shop. There are also a school and care facilities for elderly people run by Aberdeen City Council. There is a Church of Scotland parish church - Saint George's Tillydrone Church^[3] - and the church building is regularly used for community meetings and by community groups such as the Girls' Brigade and Tillydrone Vision.^[4]

The Scottish charity, Men and Boys Eating and Exercise Disorders Service^[5] SC044378 is based in Aberdeen.

Between the main part of Tillydrone and the River Don is an extensive area of open and wooded land, which leads into the city's Seaton Park. At the edge of this, alongside Tillydrone Road, is the Wallace Tower, a turreted townhouse typical of pre-Georgian Aberdeen architecture which was moved stone by stone from its original city-centre location at the time of the construction of a Marks & Spencer shop next to the St. Nicholas Shopping Centre. Aberdeen Community Energy operate a 100kW hydro scheme on the site of the former Donside Papermill.

An Aberdeen City Council "blueprint" has earmarked the area for extensive redevelopment along with five other areas within Aberdeen.^{[citation needed]}

The Diamond Bridge was constructed and opened in June 2016 over the River Don connecting the Tillydrone area with Bridge of Don.

References

^ Aberdeen City Council. "2005 Population Estimates" (PDF). Aberdeencity.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2007.
^ "Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation". Simd.scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
^ "Saint George's Tillydrone Church is the Parish Church for Tillydrone". Saint George's Tillydrone Church.
^ "Index of /".
^ "Eating Disorder Help".

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Map of Aberdeen showing Tillydrone centred at MultiMap

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