- Daviot, Aberdeenshire
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The prehistoric stone circle at Loanhead of Daviot
This article is about the region in Scotland. For the writer Gordon Daviot, see Josephine Tey.For the village near Inverness, see Daviot, Highland.Daviot (Gaelic: Deimhidh) is a village in Aberdeenshire. Theologian William Robinson Clark was born here.
Daviot has one of the best examples of Neolithic stone circles in the north east of Scotland, Loanhead of Daviot stone circle, which comprises 10 stones plus one recumbent stone. Other interesting features are the House of Daviot, a disused mental home recently bought and refurbished privately, a Schlumberger explosives facility (on a nearby hill), and the first GM crop field in Scotland.
In Daviot there is also a pub (The Smiddy Bar)
Daviot was also the original home village of Jenny Thompson who was made famous in the Wayne Rooney sex scandal
Daviot Website: www.daviot.org
Settlements and places of interest in Garioch, Aberdeenshire Primary settlements 
Other settlements Places of interest Bennachie · Castle Fraser · Dunnideer · Maiden Stone
Areas and primary settlements in Aberdeenshire
(see also: Aberdeen City)in Banff and Buchan Aberchirder · Banff · Fraserburgh · Gardenstown · Inverallochy and Cairnbulg · Macduff · Portsoy · Rosehearty · Sandhaven · Whitehills
in Buchan Boddam · Crimond · Cruden Bay · Fetterangus · Hatton · Longside · Maud · Mintlaw · New Deer · New Pitsligo · Peterhead · St Combs · St Fergus · Strichen · Stuartfield
in Formartine Balmedie · Cuminestown · Ellon · Fyvie · Newburgh · Oldmeldrum · Pitmedden · Potterton · Rothienorman · Tarves · Turriff
in Garioch in Kincardine and Mearns Drumoak · Fettercairn · Gourdon · Inverbervie · Johnshaven · Laurencekirk · Newtonhill · Portlethen · St Cyrus · Stonehaven
in Marr Coordinates: 57°20′N 2°25′W / 57.333°N 2.417°W
Categories:- Villages in Aberdeenshire
- Neolithic Scotland
- Aberdeenshire geography stubs
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