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Scotland Outdoors

Mark and Euan explore the river Ythan in Aberdeenshire from source to sea taking in castles, wildlife and a spot of canoeing

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mark and Euan explore the river Ythan from source to sea including a canoe journey on it

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0:00.0

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0:36.3

Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdose Podcast.

0:39.7

I'm Mark Stephen. He's you and McElwreath.

0:41.4

Yeah, a slightly different one for us today.

0:43.2

We're following the river Eithen from the start.

0:46.4

We're up in the hills right down to the estuary.

0:49.5

It's a little known river in Aberdeenshire, but it's very dear to many people.

0:56.5

It says here, Eithen, a smooth, slow river of Aberdeenshire rising at the wells of Eithen,

1:02.2

768 feet above sea level, and winding 35 and 1 8th miles, east, south-eastward,

1:09.3

through or along the borders of Forg, Ochtarless, 5y,

1:12.0

Methylik, Tarvis, Ellen, Logiebuckin, Slains and Favran parishes,

1:16.3

till it falls into the German ocean near the seaport village of Newborough.

1:20.4

I'm Mark Stephen. He's you in McElray. That was an excerpt from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland,

1:25.1

and we're actually at the head of the Ithon. Yeah, well, there's an ironic place called Ithen Wells of the Wells of Ithin.

1:31.6

The head of the Ithin. I can't see a damn thing.

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