Slug Road
road in Scotland
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 (from the Gaelic word sloc, meaning "hollow") and lies between the hills Craigbeg and Cairn-mon-earn.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon describes the Guthrie family travelling along the Slug Road in bad weather as they move to Kinraddie in his novel Sunset Song.
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