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Slug Road

The Slug Road (A957) is a 13-mile road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It runs from Stonehaven in the Mearns to Banchory in Deeside, crossing a spur of the Grampians. The pass through which it runs is known as the Slug and lies between the hills Craigbeg and Cairn-mon-earn.

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The Slug Road (A957) is a 13-mile road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 It runs from Stonehaven in the Mearns to Banchory in Deeside, crossing a spur of the Grampians. The pass through which it runs is known as the Slug (from the Gaelic word sloc, meaning "hollow")2 and lies between the hills Craigbeg and Cairn-mon-earn.3

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  1. "Slug Road". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  2. "Slug n.3". Scottish National Dictionary. Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  3. Bremner, Alexander (1925). "Glacial Geology of the Stonehaven District" (PDF). Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. 11: 32.

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