Pitcaple
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|official_name = Pitcaple
|gaelic_name = Baile Chapaill
|country = Scotland
|static_image_name = Pitcaple (geograph 4090239).jpg
|static_image_caption = Pitcaple
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|unitary_scotland = Aberdeenshire
|lieutenancy_scotland = Aberdeenshire
|post_town = INVERURIE
|postcode_area = AB
|postcode_district = AB51
|constituency_westminster = Gordon and Buchan
|constituency_scottish_parliament = Aberdeenshire West
}}
Pitcaple ({{langx|gd|Baile Chapaill}}) is a hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on the River Urie 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Inverurie.
Nearby Pitcaple Castle is a 17th-century country house which was restored by William Burn in 1830.{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst4022.html |title=Pitcaple|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|accessdate=6 January 2011}} It was built close to the remains of a 15th-century tower house.
There is a disused railway station.
William Alexander
The journalist and author William Alexander (1826 - 1894) was brought up on Damhead Farm near Pitcaple.Donaldson, William, Introduction to Alexander, William, The Laird of Drammochdyle and his Contemporaries, Aberdeen University Press, 1986, pp. xi - vvii, {{isbn|0-08-034520-4}}
References
{{Garioch, Aberdeenshire places|state=uncollapsed}}
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Category:Villages in Aberdeenshire
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