Kemnay

KEMNAY. The village, enchantingly set on the broad Don, with Bennachie before, developed in two, widely separated bursts; the first the opening up of the granite quarries and the coming of the railway in the mid-19th century, prior to which it had been 'a paltry hamlet' (Groome), the second the oil related expansion of the 1970s and 1980s. Kemnay was the granite core of Aberdeenshire, with quarries at Paradise, Leschangie and Whitestones. Now augmented by many different styles of timber housing - two-storey, semi-detached, dark browns and muted greens of Fraser Place to the blithe red and dun cabin-styles by the river

Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk