What is recorded here

Ellon, Castle Road, Smithy is an 18th-century smithy and yard in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Heat and hammer work may have filled the yard, making the road smell of iron and soot while people waited for tools, shoes or repair. The saved point still marks a small violent place where fire, metal and human patience met.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ellon, Castle Road, Smithy as Smithy (18th Century), Yard (18th Century). 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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