Woodside
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 Woodside Primary School | |
  Woodside Location within the Aberdeen City council area  Woodside Location within Scotland | |
| OS grid reference | NJ925088 |
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| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ABERDEEN |
| Postcode district | AB24 |
| Dialling code | 01224 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
| Website | aberdeencity.gov.uk |
Woodside is an area of Aberdeen. It came into existence as a quoad sacra parish within the parish of Old Machar in 1834, under an act of The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland of 31 May 1834 (IX. Sess. 10, 31 May 1834. – Declaration Enactment as to Chapels of Ease),[1] and was named for the principal residence of the area, Woodside House.
Within this parish, which was bounded to the north by the River Don there were three villages, Woodside, Tanfield and Cotton (also known as Nether Cottown).[2] Its population in 1841 was 4,893 living in 440 houses. By 1868 it had become a police burgh[3] and the community was being described as a village in its own right (distinct from the quoad sacra parish of which it was the largest part), and a suburb of Aberdeen. It was part of the Aberdeen Burgh Parliamentary constituency.[4]
By 1881, it had developed into a community of 5,452 (the population of quoad sacra parish population growing to 5,928). It had its own separate post office, a railway station, paper works, a free library, a public school and a number of churches of various denominations.[5] Ten years later in 1891 it was formally incorporated into the county of the city of Aberdeen (along with Old Aberdeen and Torry).[6]
- ^ "The principal acts of the general assembly, convened at Edinburgh, May 22, 1834". British History Online. Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1846). 1846 - Topographical dictionary of Scotland,Volume II: From Keanlochbervie to Zetland. London: S Lewis & Co. pp. 616–7.
- ^ Fraser, W. Hamish; Lee, Clive Howard (2000). Aberdeen, 1800 to 2000. East Linton: Tuckwell Press Ltd. p. 486. ISBN 1 86232 175 2.
- ^ Wilson, John Marius (1868). 1868 - Imperial gazetteer of Scotland, or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, Volume 2. Leith Walk: Fullarton and MacNab. p. 867.
- ^ Groome, Francis H. (1885). 1884-1885 - Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland, Volume 6. London, Glasgow: Thomas C Jack. p. 499.
- ^ Fraser, W. Hamish; Lee, Clive Howard (2000). Aberdeen, 1800 to 2000. East Linton: Tuckwell Press Ltd. p. 252. ISBN 1 86232 175 2.