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Pitcaple
Scottish Gaelic: *Baile Chapaill*
Pitcaple Scottish Gaelic: Baile Chapaill;
	Pitcaple
	Pitcaple Location within Aberdeenshire
OS grid reference	NJ722251
Council area	Aberdeenshire;
Lieutenancy area	Aberdeenshire;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	INVERURIE
Postcode district	AB51
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Gordon and Buchan;
Scottish Parliament	Aberdeenshire West;
	List of places UK Scotland 57°19′12″N 2°27′48″W / 57.32000°N 2.46333°W

Pitcaple (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Chapaill) is a hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on the River Urie 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Inverurie.

Nearby Pitcaple Castle is a 17th-century country house which was restored by William Burn in 1830.^[1] It was built close to the remains of a 15th-century tower house.

There is a disused railway station.

William Alexander

The journalist and author William Alexander (1826 - 1894) was brought up on Damhead Farm near Pitcaple.^[2]

References

^ "Pitcaple". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
^ Donaldson, William, Introduction to Alexander, William, The Laird of Drammochdyle and his Contemporaries, Aberdeen University Press, 1986, pp. xi - vvii, ISBN 0-08-034520-4

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[1] "Pitcaple". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 6 January 2011.

[2] Donaldson, William, Introduction to Alexander, William, The Laird of Drammochdyle and his Contemporaries, Aberdeen University Press, 1986, pp. xi - vvii, ISBN 0-08-034520-4

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