Towie, Aberdeenshire

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Postcode district AB33
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57°12′0″N2°56′7″W / 57.20000°N 2.93528°W / 57.20000; -2.93528

Towie is a small hamlet and civil parish in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, close to Alford and Lumsden, on the River Don. [1]

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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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References

  1. "History of Towie in Aberdeenshire | Map and description". Visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  2. "Aberdeenshire Council - Towie School". Aberdeenshire.gov.uk. 30 October 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  3. Scotland. "Towie School - Aberdeenshire". Educationscotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  4. "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)
  5. John Ames (9 December 2015). "Memories of the Glenkindie Telephone Exchange". National Museums Scotland.