Drumblade
{{Short description|Hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland}}
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Drumblade is a hamlet{{Cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst3984.html|title=Drumblade from the Gazetteer for Scotland}} in north-western Aberdeenshire, Scotland, which lies 4¾ miles east of the town of Huntly.{{cite web| url = http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=16695| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220106/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=16695| archive-date = 2016-03-03| title = History of Drumblade in Aberdeenshire {{!}} Map and description}}
Schools
Drumblade Primary School is a primary school with a nursery unit, and a total roll of 53 as of 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://drumblade.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/about-our-school/|title = About Our School | Drumblade School}} It is a feeder school for The Gordon Schools, Huntly.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/schools/our_schools/detail.asp?schoolid=GDBP |title=Aberdeenshire Council - Drumblade School |access-date=2013-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204115121/http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/schools/our_schools/detail.asp?schoolid=GDBP |archive-date=2013-02-04 |url-status=dead }} It made the national news in 2012 when its pet ducks disappeared, presumed stolen.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-20295924|title=Ducks returned after being stolen from Drumblade Primary School|work=BBC News|date=12 November 2012}}
History
Drumblade Stone Circle, or Ston(e)yfield, is the remains of an ancient stone circle. It is about {{convert|6|km|mi}} east of Huntly.{{cite web| url = http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8990/stonyfield.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090118093630/http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/8990/stonyfield.html| archive-date = 2009-01-18| title = The Modern Antiquarian.com {{!}} UK {{!}} Stonyfield (Stone Circle)}}
Drumblade is the site of the Battle of Slioch in December 1307,{{Cite web |url=http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/place-names/Drumblade?class=parish&county=Aberdeenshire |title=Place names for Drumblade | ScotlandsPlaces |access-date=2013-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185414/http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/place-names/Drumblade?class=parish&county=Aberdeenshire |archive-date=2013-10-29 |url-status=dead }} involving Robert the Bruce.
Notable residents
- William Garden Blaikie minister, later Free Church moderator {{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |date=1926 |publisher=Oliver and Boyd |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc06scot/page/306/mode/2up 307]-308 |volume=6 |url=https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc06scot |author-link=Hew Scott}}{{PD-notice}}
- George Ramsay Davidson minister of Drumblade from 1828 to 1842
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