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Attractions near Balmoral Castle
Craigievar Castle (20 Miles)*
This fairytale-like castle, which exemplifies some of the best Scottish Baronial architecture, seems to have grown naturally out of the beautiful rolling hillsides of Aberdeenshire.
Grampian Transport Museum (23 Miles)*
A treasure house of transport history with lots to see and do. Dramatic displays, push button exhibits and video presentations trace the history of road travel in the locality.
Edzell Castle & Garden (24 Miles)*
This is a remarkable and very beautiful complex, with a late-medieval tower house incorporated in to a 16th century courtyard mansion.
Grantown Museum (25 Miles)*
Grantown Museum tells the story of the people and the building of Grantown-on-Spey.
Barrie's Birthplace (25 Miles)*
The creator of the eternal magic of Peter Pan - J M Barrie - was born here in 1860.
Leith Hall (27 Miles)*
Step inside this beautiful house and you are immediately immersed in the atmosphere of a typical Scottish laird's residence.
Crathes Castle (28 Miles)*
An ideal place for the whole family to visit for a fantastic day out on Royal Deeside. The castle, with its fairytale turrets, is a superb example of a 16th-century tower house
Killiecrankie (28 Miles)*
On the 27th July 1689, the Pass of Killiecrankie echoed with the sound of battle cries and gunfire when, nearby, a Jacobite army led by 'Bonnie Dundee' defeated the government forces under General Hugh Mackay.
Angus Folk Museum (29 Miles)*
Visit one of Scotland's finest folk museums and explore life in rural Scotland during the past 200 years.
Glamis Castle (29 Miles)*
Glamis Castle is the family home of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne and has been a royal residence since 1372.
Balvenie Castle (29 Miles)*
Balvenie is a castle of enclosure first owned by the Comyns, with a curtain wall of 13th century date.
Castle Fraser (30 Miles)*
A visit to Castle Fraser is a great day out for the whole family. The castle is one of the finest in Aberdeenshire and is the largest, most elaborate Scottish castle built on the traditional 'Z' plan.
Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum (30 Miles)*
In Meigle, there is a magnificent collection of 25 sculptured monuments of the early Christian period.
Ruthven Barracks (31 Miles)*
Ruthven Barracks is an infantry barracks erected in 1719 following the Jacobite rising of 1715, with two ranges of quarters and a stable block.
Clan Donnachaidh Museum (32 Miles)*
In 1967 the Clan Donnachaidh Society raised enough money world-wide to buy a site at Bruar and to open the first purpose-built Clan Museum in Scotland in 1969.

* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.

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