Tillydrone

Tillydrone
Aberdeen City
Tillydrone Aberdeen City;
Lieutenancy area	Aberdeen;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ABERDEEN
Postcode district	AB24
Dialling code	01224
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Aberdeen North;
Scottish Parliament	Aberdeen Central;
Website	aberdeencity.gov.uk
	List of places UK Scotland 57°10′14″N 2°06′56″W / 57.1706°N 2.1156°W

Tillydrone is an area of

railway line.^[2]

The name is a corruption of the

council housing and includes tower blocks and terraced tenement flats in addition to some low-rise terraced houses. As with most council housing stock in the United Kingdom, some of these properties have been purchased by their occupants. The proximity of the area to the University of Aberdeen

results in some of the housing being rented to students.

Tillydrone is considered to be an area of Aberdeen where poverty is commonplace and social class is low. The area has a number of shops and businesses including a pharmacy, a post office and an award winning butcher shop. There are also a school and care facilities for elderly people run by Aberdeen City Council. There is a Church of Scotland parish church - Saint George's Tillydrone Church^[3] - and the church building is regularly used for community meetings and by community groups such as the Girls' Brigade and Tillydrone Vision.^[4]

The Scottish charity, Men and Boys Eating and Exercise Disorders Service^[5] SC044378 is based in Aberdeen.

Between the main part of Tillydrone and the River Don is an extensive area of open and wooded land, which leads into the city's

St. Nicholas Shopping Centre. Aberdeen Community Energy operate a 100kW hydro scheme on the site of the former Donside Papermill

.

An Aberdeen City Council "blueprint" has earmarked the area for extensive redevelopment along with five other areas within Aberdeen.^[citation needed]

The Diamond Bridge was constructed and opened in June 2016 over the River Don connecting the Tillydrone area with Bridge of Don

References

^ Aberdeen City Council. "2005 Population Estimates" (PDF). Aberdeencity.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2007.
^ "Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation". Simd.scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
^ "Saint George's Tillydrone Church is the Parish Church for Tillydrone". Saint George's Tillydrone Church.
^ "Index of /".
^ "Eating Disorder Help".

External links

Map of Aberdeen showing Tillydrone centred at MultiMap

[1] Aberdeen City Council. "2005 Population Estimates" (PDF). Aberdeencity.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2007.

[2] "Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation". Simd.scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2016.

[3] "Saint George's Tillydrone Church is the Parish Church for Tillydrone". Saint George's Tillydrone Church.

[4] "Index of /".

[5] "Eating Disorder Help".

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