Near Peterculter: Drum Castle and other places to visit
Nothing on our list is inside Peterculter’s locality; the 5 places to visit are within 5 km of its edge. Look for a castle, a museum and a garden. Here, one place is kept up by the National Trust for Scotland. For a full day, there is Dunnottar Castle, 18 km away.
Leading the list near Peterculter
The rest of the best known are a museum, a garden and a theme park.
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandDrum Castle3.3 km outside town, to the west
MuseumBlairs Museum3.2 km outside town, to the east
GardenDrum Castle Rose Garden3.1 km outside town, to the westTheme parkTheme parkThe Den & the Glen1.6 km outside town, to the southeastHistoric siteHistoric siteHawker Hunter MK1 N3154.6 km outside town, to the southEach has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
Map of the places
The map ends at Hawker Hunter MK1 N315, 5.6 km out.
The dashed line is Peterculter’s locality; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · NRS locality 2022
The kinds on offer
Between them they are a castle, a museum and a garden.
Green: inside Peterculter. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
1 place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland (Drum Castle).
All the places to visit
Nothing is inside Peterculter itself; these 5 are within 5 km of its edge.
Close and well known first. Churches and listed buildings are on the History page, not here.
9 listed buildings are on Peterculter’s History page → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Peterculter →
Further away
Most famous of the 12 is Dunnottar Castle, 18 km from the centre.
CastleDunnottar Castle18 km south
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandCrathes Castle11 km west
CathedralSt Mary's Cathedral11 km northeast
CathedralSt Machar's Cathedral13 km northeast
CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral12 km northeast
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandCastle Fraser16 km northwestCastleCastle · National Trust for ScotlandCraigievar Castle29 km west
MuseumAberdeen Art Gallery11 km northeast
CastleAberdeen Castle12 km northeast
MuseumAberdeen Maritime Museum12 km northeastCastleCastleMidmar Castle14 km west
CastleMuchalls Castle11 km southeastPlaces well known beyond Peterculter (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a National Trust for Scotland or Historic Environment Scotland property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
What visitors ask about Peterculter
What is there to see near Peterculter?
No attraction is mapped inside Peterculter itself. Within 5 km of it are Drum Castle, Blairs Museum, Drum Castle Rose Garden and The Den & the Glen.
Does Peterculter have a museum?
1 museum or gallery is in or within 5 km of Peterculter: Blairs Museum.
Is there a National Trust for Scotland or Historic Environment Scotland property near Peterculter?
Yes. In or within 5 km of Peterculter, 1 place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland (Drum Castle).
What are the best-known days out near Peterculter?
Within 40 km: Dunnottar Castle (18 km), Crathes Castle (11 km), St Mary's Cathedral (11 km), St Machar's Cathedral (13 km).
Where are Peterculter’s historic buildings listed?
Peterculter has 9 listed buildings, 1 of them Category A. They are on its History page, from Historic Environment Scotland’s list, not repeated here.
How is this list made?
From OpenStreetMap (museums, galleries, zoos, theme parks and attractions, castles, forts and abbeys, and historic houses and gardens that are open to visitors) and Wikidata (what each place is, who runs it, its website and visitor counts). A place counts for Peterculter when it is inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary, and as nearby within 5 km of its edge. Opening times and prices are not shown: check the official site.
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (13)
- Drum Castle: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blairs Museum: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Drum Castle Rose Garden: Watty62, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dunnottar Castle: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Crathes Castle: Oyoyoy, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Mary's Cathedral: Lucas Kendall, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Machar's Cathedral: PaulT (Gunther Tschuch), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Andrew's Cathedral: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Castle Fraser: Karora, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aberdeen Art Gallery: Tom Parnell from Scottish Borders, Scotland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aberdeen Castle: Anthony Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aberdeen Maritime Museum: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Muchalls Castle: Anlace at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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