Union Terrace Gardens

Union Terrace Gardens

Infobox park
park= Union Terrace Gardens


image size= 275px
caption= Floral Crest with His Majesty's Theatre in background.
type= Public Garden
location= Aberdeen, Scotland
coordinates= coord|57|8|49|N|2|6|12|W
size= 1 hectare (10,000 m²)
opened= 1879
operator= Aberdeen City Council
annual visitors=
status= Open all year

Union Terrace Gardens is a park in the centre of Aberdeen, Scotland.

The park covers one hectare to the side of Union Terrace, off Aberdeen's main thoroughfare, Union Street. As a natural amphitheatre, the park is used for concerts and leisure activities, as well as providing somewhere to relax. On the park's north side is a floral crest of the Aberdeen's coat of arms.

At the Union Street end of the gardens are a group of mature Elm trees, approximately 200 years old, that are remnants of a site once known as Corbie Haugh. "Corbie" is a Scots word for "crow," and crows still nest at the site; "Haugh" means a low-lying meadow in a river valley, the river in this instance being the Den Burn.


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