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Today is 25th March 2026 .

Wikishire is where you may find the best of Britain and Ireland.

Wikishire is where you are; whether you are on the Shetland islands or the South Shetland Islands, or the places between, Wikishire is a growing guide on all you need to know about the British and Irish lands.

Tell the world what you love about your home. Each shire, from Kent to Kerry is here, with ever-growing detail; if your town or village is not in Wikishire, or if something important is missed out, then log on, then -

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To begin, you can peruse the list of counties of the UK or Republic of Ireland, or even go directly to a random page! To accompany the encyclopædia we also have an interactive map of the counties of the British Isles. We also have Resources for GIS including KML files and postcode lookup tools.

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Haddo House

Haddo House is a stately home in Aberdeenshire, approximately twenty miles north of Aberdeen. The home of the Marquesses of Aberdeen, it has been owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1979.

The house and its predecessors have been the seat of the Gordons, later Earls and Marquesses of Aberdeen, for over 500 years. Nearby lies the site of the old Kellie Castle, which was the Gordon family's previous seat, until burnt down by the Covenanters in the seventeenth century.

The house was built in 1732, designed by William Adam in the Georgian Palladian style. The interior though is late Victorian in style, after a refurbishment in 1880. (Read more)

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