Echt () is a crossroads village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Echt has a number of prehistoric remains, including the Barmekin of Echt, a prehistoric hillfort on a hill to the northwest. There is also the Cullerlie stone circle near Sunhoney Farm, which may date from the Bronze Age.
Echt contains a church, a village shop and post office, a restaurant (Echt Tandoori), and a pleasure park with a children's play area. Local football matches are also held there. The annual Echt Show, a farmers' show, is held on the second Saturday in July.
It is centred on the junction of the B977 Dunecht to Banchory road and the B9119 Kingsford to Ordie road. It is some from the city of Aberdeen.
Literary associations Echt was the birthplace, in 1896, of Chris Guthrie, the fictional heroine of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy A Scots Quair.Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (2015), Sunset Song, Polygon, Edinburgh, p. 28, , In the 1890s, Jean Baxter, author of the collection of poems in Scots A' Ae 'Oo (1928), spent part of her childhood in the village, while her family kept the Balcarres Arms Hotel.Baxter, Alison (2024), Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter; Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ,
References
AA Touring Guide to Scotland (1978)
Further reading Baxter, Alison (2024), Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon,
External links
Echt in the Gazetteer for Scotland
Virtual Eagle Tour of Barmekin Hill