Drumtochty Castle is beautiful and in a fabulous rural setting.

That does mean that that the castle is only easily accessed by car or by taxi. Public transport (the no. 26 bus) can take you as far as the village of Auchenblae - but you'd then have a two mile walk.

If you'd like to travel part of the way on public transport, we'd recommend going to Stonehaven and getting a taxi from there.

Sat-Nav

The castle and church are both on Google Maps and other services, so you can pop them into your phone for directions. If you're using a car sat-nav, the postcode for the church is AB30 1TQ. If you prefer to use what3words, ///pampered.expensive.healthier will get you there too.

Directions

If you prefer old-school printed directions, we've taken (shamelessly stolen) these from the Castle's web-page -

Traveling from the North: From Aberdeen take the A90 ‘Stonehaven road’ south for 24 miles. Take a right at the signpost for ‘Auchenblae’, onto ‘The Waters’ road. Follow this road for 2 miles until you arrive at the village of Auchenblae, then take a left, signposted as the ‘Cemetery’. Follow this road round and take a sharp right at the junction. Then follow the road for 3 miles until you pass St Palladius church on your right which is located next to the main entrance to Drumtochty Castle.

Traveling from the South: Take the A90 ‘North’ from Perth or Dundee for 38 miles. Just north of Laurencekirk turn left sign posted ‘Auchenblae’, onto ‘The Waters’ road. Follow this road for 2 miles until you arrive at the village of Auchenblae, then take a left, signposted as the ‘Cemetery’. Follow this road round and take a sharp right at the junction. Then follow the road for 3 miles until you pass St Palladius church on your right which is located next to the main entrance to Drumtochty Castle.

At the Church

There's car parking available outside of the kirkyard, at the side of the road. This is hopefully obvious, but don't drive through the gate and park by the door, or block the gate!

There's also more parking off the road. Head just past the driveway up to the Castle and you'll see it on the right. If there's no space by the Church then you might need to park...

At the Castle

There's ample parking behind the castle. Please follow the road along and park behind the Castle. There's no parking in front of the Castle on the day. Anyone parked in front of the Castle will have their car scrapped (or asked to move if Lisa is feeling generous).

If you've chosen to stay at Drumtochty (see the accommodation page!) then you'll be told where the best parking is for you.

EV Charging

The castle has two 7kW Pod-Point chargers available in the car park behind the castle. These are chargeable (currently 47p per kWh) and are activated using the Pod-Point app.