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Location within Aberdeenshire | |
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Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
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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.
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