Raedykes

#4355 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Raedykes is the site of a Roman marching camp located just over three miles northwest of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. National Grid Reference NO 842902. It is designated as a scheduled monument. A marching camp was a temporary camp used mainly for overnight stops on a long route between more permanent forts, or as a temporary base while on campaign in hostile territory. ()

Coordinates: 57°0'8"N, 2°15'49"W

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Raedykes – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Stonehaven Tolbooth, Doonie Point, Cowie Chapel.

3.2 miSE
Water park, Amusement park, Sport venue
Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Stonehaven
81 min walk • Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool, Queen Elizabeth Park, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, is an Olympic sized heated open air public pool opened in 1934. It is the northernmost lido in the UK.
3.7 miSE
Specialty museum, Museum
Stonehaven Tolbooth, Stonehaven
94 min walk • The Stonehaven Tolbooth is a late 16th-century stone building originally used as a courthouse and a prison in the town of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
3.8 miE
Climbing
Doonie Point
98 min walk • Doonie Point is a rocky headland situated approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the village of Muchalls in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The clifftop of Doonie Point yields views to the north of Grim Brigs, Brown Jewel and the coast of Newtonhill.
3.2 miSE
Ruins
Cowie Chapel, Stonehaven
82 min walk • The Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan is a ruined chapel overlooking the North Sea immediately north of Stonehaven, in the Mearns of Scotland, along the northern shoreline of Stonehaven Bay.
3.8 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cairn Mon Earn
97 min walk • Cairn Mon Earn or Cairn-mon-earn is a hill in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
3.3 miE
Forts and castles
Muchalls Castle
85 min walk • Muchalls Castle stands overlooking the North Sea in the countryside of Kincardine and Mearns, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The lower course is a well-preserved Romanesque, double-groined 13th-century tower house structure, built by the Frasers of Muchalls.
3.2 miSE
Forts and castles
Cowie Castle
83 min walk • Cowie Castle is a ruined fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The site lies at the northern end of Stonehaven on the North Sea coast. To the immediate south is the Cowie Bridge crossing of the Cowie Water. Evidence of prehistoric man exists in the vicinity dating to the Iron Age in the form of ring cairns.
2.9 miS
Forts and castles
Fetteresso Castle, Stonehaven
74 min walk • Fetteresso Castle is a 14th-century tower house, rebuilt in 1761 as a Scottish Gothic style Palladian manor, with clear evidence of prehistoric use of the site.
3.4 miSE
Church
Dunnottar Parish Church, Stonehaven
86 min walk • Dunnottar Parish Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, serving Stonehaven in the south of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Kincardine and Deeside. During 2020, the congregation united to the South Parish Church in Stonehaven to form Carronside Church of Scotland.
1.2 miW
Stela
Lang Stane of Auquhollie
30 min walk • The Lang Stane of Auquhollie is an Ogam-inscribed standing stone some 6 kilometres north-west of Stonehaven in Scotland. Situated on south side of Meikle Carew Hill at a height of about 140 metres above sea level, the stone is approximately 3 metres in height and 0.75 metres in diameter, an unshaped monolith of gneiss.
2.8 miNE
Church
Cookney Church
72 min walk • Cookney Parish Church, now business premises within a converted listed building, was a Christian place of worship in the village of Cookney, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.