Peterculter

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Peterculter



OS grid reference:	NJ840007



Population:	4,320 (2004) [1]



Council area:	Aberdeen City
Constituent country:	Scotland
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom

Police force:	Grampian Police
Lieutenancy area:	Aberdeen
Former county:	Aberdeenshire

Post town:	PETERCULTER
Postal:	AB14 0xx
Telephone:	01224


Scottish Parliament:	Aberdeen South
UK Parliament:	Aberdeen South
European Parliament:	Scotland

Peterculter (pronounced Peter-coo-ter) is a village on the western edge of Aberdeen, Scotland approximately 8 miles inland from the city centre. Although originally a separate entity, it is now part of the City of Aberdeen local council, and is generally accepted as a suburb of Aberdeen.

The latter part of the name is said to be derived from the Gaelic compound word "Cul-tir", which signifies the back part of the country, and would correctly apply to a considerable portion of the land on both sides of the Dee.

King William the Lion bestowed the church of Kulter, “iuxta Abirdene”, upon the Abbey and monks of St Mary of Kelso, about 1165 – 1199. The gift was afterwards confirmed by Mathew, Bishop of Aberdeen, within whose diocese the church was situated.

Alan of Soltre, chaplain, who had probably been an ecclesiastic of the hospital, or monastery of Soutra, in Lothian, was presented by the Abbot of Kelso, to the vicarage of the church of Culter, 1239 – 1240.

In 1287 – 1288, an agreement was made between the Abbot and Convent of Kelso and the brotherhood of the Knights of Jerusalem, regarding the Templars’ lands of Blairs and Kincolsi (Kincousie), on the south side of the Dee, by which a chapel, erected by the Templars at their house of Culter, was recognised as a church, with parochial rights, for the inhabitants of the said lands. It was this agreement that changed the existing parish of Culter into two separate parishes with two separate names, the other being Maryculter.