Maud, Aberdeenshire
Maud
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Maud village centre | |
Maud Location within Aberdeenshire | |
| Population | 910 (2020) |
| OS grid reference | NJ925479 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PETERHEAD |
| Postcode district | AB42 |
| Dialling code | 01771 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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Maud (Scottish Gaelic: Am Mòd) is a village in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire. Located 13 miles (21 km) west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water, Maud rose to prosperity in the 19th century as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, but has always been the meeting place of six roads. It has had a variety of names:
- Bank of Behitch
- Brucklay
- New Maud, the New having since fallen out of use, leading to the village's current name