Pitcaple

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|official_name = Pitcaple

|gaelic_name = Baile Chapaill

|country = Scotland

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|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

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Category:Hamlets in Scotland

Category:Villages in Aberdeenshire

Category:Inverurie

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