Pitmedden, United Kingdom

Within view of the Tolquhon Castle were lands occupied by Alexander Panton and his family until about 1619 when it was sold to a Seton family relative. A castle or tower was erected in time. This was later rebuilt as Pitmedden House with gardens. Following a fire, the residence was rebuilt c. 19th century. The now-tourist attraction of Pitmedden Garden, less than 0.6 miles (0.97 km) north-west of the village, was created in the 17th century by Sir Alexander Seton. The house was later occupied in the 1800s by shipping owner and politician George Thompson. About 1893 it was purchased by Major James Keith (1879–1953), an innovative and respected farmer who was part of the Scottish Agricultural Commission visitations to Denmark (1904), Ireland (1906), and Canada and Australia (1910). In 1952, the year before his death, Keith gifted the garden to the National Trust for Scotland. The grounds included a 9 feet (2.7 m) 1675 sundial.

The Pitmedden Church (57.336778°N 2.179333°W / 57.336778; -2.179333) was founded in 1843, and the actual church built in 1864 as the United Free Church of Udny. A triangular stained-glass window was a gift from the founding 1844 minister, Reverend George Archibald. The Free Church's manse later became the Linsmohr Hotel.

a number of presumed farms (to the north: East Newseat, North Alehouse, South Alehouse, Mains of Dumbreck (and castle), Coulielaire, Iriewells, and Boghead; to the east: Bonnyton, Mill of Torry, Ladyhill, Mosstown, Mosscroft of Allathan, Thriepfield, Moss-side, Tillyfar, Cloysterseat, West Cloysterseat, Allathan, Milltown of Allathan; and to the south: Houseaside, Mill of Udny, Mosshead, West Craig, Ardmore, Denend, Bridgend);

the closest railway station was Logierieve (1861–1965; to the east), on the Formartine and Buchan section of the Great North of Scotland Railway;

Pitmedden House (to the north-west), a forest around Milltown of Allathan, and the Allathan Quarry (to the east);

the blacksmith was to the north of the village by 0.57 miles (0.92 km);

a 800 yards (730 m) long rifle range (57.33964°N 2.16994°W / 57.33964; -2.16994) was beside Bronie Burn near the Milltown of Allathan farm; and

the village itself was an assemblage of about twenty houses along the Newburgh–Oldmeldrum road. The Free Church and a small school were on the east side of the village, and the church manse the first building on the western approach.

During World War II, Pitmedden had a prisoner-of-war camp (57.337139°N 2.183194°W / 57.337139; -2.183194), holding both Italian and then German POWs. This was located on the south side of the Bronie Burn, and there was an access bridge to access it. The entrance to the camp was about 100 yards (91 m) from the Aberdeen/Tarves/Oldmeldrum fork in Pitmedden, on the Oldmeldrum road. On 25 October 1945, at the Milton of Dumbreck farm, 36-year-old Italian POW Martino Favilli died of an illness. POWs cycled each day to work on local farms; one local farmer still has small items made by the POWs. The camp was not notable amongst the list of Scottish POW camps.

After 2:15 p.m. Wednesday 24 December 1941, an RAF Bristol Blenheim IVF light bomber with RNZAF pilot Dick Poynter, two flight crew, and two military passengers departed from RAF Dyce going to RAF Wick when the starboard (right) engine started misfiring. The flames were extinguished although the engine was no longer working. The aircraft at one point then stalled, and the Blenheim crashed into the Pitmedden kirkyard, with just air gunner Wyn-Jones surviving but badly injured. All remains were repatriated except for Poynter who was buried in Dyce.

In 2020, the Scottish Government approved plans on appeal for a development of 64 homes in Pitmedden after earlier refusals by Aberdeenshire Council.