I didn’t realise this park used to be someone’s house. Before it was one of Aberdeen’s most loved green spaces, Hazlehead Park was once a private estate. Hazlehead Park gets its name from Hazlehead House a 17th-century mansion that stood here for centuries, owned by prominent Aberdeen families. This wasn’t somewhere you’d wander through for fresh air or a Sunday stroll. In the early 1900s, the land was bought by the city and opened up for public use. The house itself didn’t survive, but the name

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