What is recorded here
Crathes Castle Policies holds post-medieval ice-houses, not a quarry. That correction changes the story from extraction to preservation: people cut winter ice, stored it, and carried summer forward into food and drink. The castle estate lived on foresight.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crathes Castle Policies as Quarry(s) (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
Crathes Castle, West LodgeLodge (period Unassigned) · 542 yd
Crathes Castle, Woodbine CottageCottage (period Unassigned) · 562 yd
Ley WoodForest · 624 yd
Welcome to Banchory StoneMonument · 799 yd
Crathes CastleCountry House (16th Century), Pavilion (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval), Well (period Unassigned)(possible) · 888 yd
Hill of BanchoryNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 939 yd
Crathes Castle, Walled GardenWalled Garden (period Unassigned) · 943 yd
Balbridie CottageRing Ditch (later Prehistoric)(possible) · 1109 yd
BaldarrochNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.3 mi
Tilquhillie CastleTower House (medieval) · 1.4 mi
Falls of FeughWaterfall · 1.8 mi
Catterloch WoodForest · 1.9 mi