Ballater

Ballater, a village of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the banks of the Dee, 43½ miles WSW. of Aberdeen by rail. It is the resort of numerous visitors, on account of the medicinal springs of Pannanich in the vicinity. Balmoral Castle, the Scottish residence of Queen Victoria, and Ballatrigh Farm, connected with the boyhood of Byron, are in the neighbourhood. It is the terminus of the Deeside extension of the Great North of Scotland Railway, and is a clean and pleasant village, with an Albert memorial hall, two churches, and barracks for the Queen's guard of honour. Pop. (1881) 759; (1891) 983.