| Towie | |
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  Towie Location within Aberdeenshire | |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
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Towie is a small hamlet and civil parish in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, close to Alford and Lumsden, on the River Don.[1]
One of the most notable features of Towie is its small primary school with nursery, which is located in the village itself.[2] As of September 2011, it had 22 pupils,[3] before moving up to attend the Alford Academy.[4] Towie also has a bowling club and a beautiful church with historic graveyard.
In 1979 the telephone exchange at Glenkindie, just north of Towie, became the UK's first digital telephone exchange.[5] As part of general developments towards digital telephony, small rural exchanges of this size were seen as candidates for solid-state exchanges as they might be more reliable than the previous electromechanical Strowger exchanges.
- ^ "History of Towie in Aberdeenshire | Map and description". Visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ "Aberdeenshire Council - Towie School". Aberdeenshire.gov.uk. 30 October 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ Scotland. "Towie School - Aberdeenshire". Educationscotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ John Ames (9 December 2015). "Memories of the Glenkindie Telephone Exchange". National Museums Scotland.