Maud
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 Maud village centre | |
  Maud Location within Aberdeenshire | |
| Population | 910 (2022)[1] |
| 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 |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Maud (Scottish Gaelic: Am Mòd) is a village in the Buchan area of the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire, with a population of 780 (2006 estimate).[2] Located 13 miles (21 km) west of Peterhead on the South Ugie Water,[3] Maud rose to prosperity after 1863[4] 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
- ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ General Register Office for Scotland, 2006 population estimate Archived 3 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 12 October 2009
- ^ *Gazetteer of Scotland: Maud, Aberdeenshire
- ^ McKean (1990), p. 85