# Elrick > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elrick > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elrick.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elrick > Source revision: 1319962592 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland This article is about the village. For the name, see [Elrick (name)](/source/Elrick_(name)). For the landscape term, see [Deer hay wind](/source/Deer_hay_wind). Place Elrick Scottish Gaelic: An Eilreig Parts of the former village of Elrick from a vantage point in Westhill Interactive map of Elrick **Elrick** ([Scottish Gaelic](/source/Scottish_Gaelic_language): *An Eilreig*) is a small village on the [A944 road](/source/A944_road) 7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) west of the city of [Aberdeen](/source/Aberdeen), Scotland.[1][2] The name derives from a Gaelic word meaning a place where [deer](/source/Deer) were driven for hunting. Elrick is also a common surname in the local area. Crruently, Stagecoach Buses operates services 5 & 6A to & from the city via Queens Road. Also, the service 218 from Alford to Aberdeen. These buses all pass through the village. The village of Elrick was incorporated in the Town of [Westhill](/source/Westhill%2C_Aberdeenshire). During the development of [Westhill](/source/Westhill%2C_Aberdeenshire) throughout the latter half of the twentieth century the city incorporated the villages of Elrick and Carnie to become a wider part of the town. There are still separate speeds and entry signs located when entering the area where the village used to be. ## History Aerial image of Elrick in 1981 The village of Elrick is not mentioned before 1800 and Jim Fiddes argues that this means that the village did not exist before this period and that it was a small area located between the villages of Carnie and Leddach. There is a debate among locals towards the proper spelling of the name Elrick with the still-signposted Earlick Cottages being right beside the Spar garage. The debate over the name of the town comes from the period during the 19th Century when the Earlick Stone and Earlick Butts were mentioned in the Leddach Disposition. However, by the [1861 United Kingdom census](/source/1861_United_Kingdom_census) both, Earlick and Elrick were used for various settlements in the area and it seems to be interchangeable.[3] Throughout the second half of the 19th century Elrick grew to become one of the main villages in the area alongside, [Kirkton of Skene](/source/Kirkton_of_Skene), Broadstraik and Carnie. Elrick would become a working village with a carpenter and blacksmiths becoming the main buildings in the area. In 2017, a memorial was placed in the centre of what was the village of Elrick commemorating the relation that the old village of Elrick had toward horses and a certain group of Clydesdales that were situated there.[4] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-OS38_1-0)** *Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 38*Aberdeen (Inverurie & Pitmedden) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780319231289](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780319231289). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-OSGaz50_2-0)** ["Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer"](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html) (csv (download)). *www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk*. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Fiddes, Jim, Brodiach to Bervie: A History of Skene and Westhill, (Inverurie: Leopard, 2012). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [https://www.paulinefraser.co.uk/newsroom/unique-granite-heritage-sculpture-unveiled](https://www.paulinefraser.co.uk/newsroom/unique-granite-heritage-sculpture-unveiled) ## External links - [Map sources](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Elrick¶ms=57.148140_N_2.294158_W_region:GB_scale:100000) for Elrick v t e Settlements and places of interest in Garioch, Aberdeenshire Primary settlements Blackburn Insch Inverurie Kemnay Kintore Newmachar Westhill Other settlements Auchleven Blairdaff Chapel of Garioch Colpy Dunecht Echt Elrick Garlogie Hatton of Fintray Kingseat Kinmuck Old Rayne Oyne Pitcaple Sauchen Skene Places of interest Bennachie Castle Fraser Dunnideer Leslie Castle Maiden Stone v t e Areas and primary settlements in Aberdeenshire (see also: Aberdeen City) in Banff and Buchan Aberchirder Banff Fraserburgh Gardenstown Inverallochy and Cairnbulg Macduff Portsoy Rosehearty Sandhaven Whitehills in Buchan Boddam Crimond Cruden Bay Fetterangus Hatton Longside Maud Mintlaw New Deer New Pitsligo Peterhead St Combs St Fergus Strichen Stuartfield in Formartine Balmedie Cuminestown Ellon Fyvie Newburgh Oldmeldrum Pitmedden Potterton Rothienorman Tarves Turriff in Garioch Blackburn Insch Inverurie Kemnay Kintore Newmachar Westhill in Kincardine and Mearns Drumoak Fettercairn Gourdon Inverbervie Johnshaven Laurencekirk Luthermuir Newtonhill Portlethen St Cyrus Stonehaven in Marr Aboyne Alford Ballater Banchory Braemar Huntly Lumphanan Tarland Torphins [57°08′53″N 2°17′39″W / 57.14814°N 2.29416°W / 57.14814; -2.29416](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Elrick¶ms=57.14814_N_2.29416_W_region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(NJ823064)) This Aberdeenshire location article is a stub. 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