The Way Of the Ash Tree - Aberdeen's Oldest Street

Brand new for 2015 - encompassing parts of the Medieval Tour, this walk begins at the edge of the Castlegate, on Shiprow, following the route through the Trinity Port as was into the Green and out into Netherkirkgate up to Guestrow, following the path of the city’s oldest recorded street, “Vicus Fraxini” the Way of the Ash Tree. Including the tale of Provost Davidson who was killed at Harlaw, Provost Ross’s house, the old Trinity Chapel, all the weird and wonderful history of the Green, Correction Wynd’s original inhabitants, including St Thomas’s Hospital, St Nicholas Kirk, then crossing to Carnegie’s Brae and finishing at Guestrow, once the home of Archibald Simpson, Aberdeen’s most famous architect. A pot-pourri of fascinating stories not to be missed!