This expanding and prosperous burgh offers the visitor good serviced accommodation, a variety of leisure and shopping facilities, and as wide a range of tourist attractions as can be found anywhere. Inverurie is 17 miles north west of Aberdeen and has good road and rail links, being on the main route from Aberdeen to Inverness. It is also an ancient Royal Burgh, the main town of the province of the Garioch, with much to show that the communities have thrived here since prehistory. It was said to be founded by the great great grandfather of Robert the Bruce, David of Huntingdon, Earl of Garioch. The earliest known Charter dates from 1558 but it's modern development occurred after the building of the Aberdeen Canal linking Port Elphinstone with Aberdeen Harbour in 1806.

There are many Bronze Age and Pictish relics and castles to be found in the vicinity as well as the sites of two decisive battles, the Battle of Barra fought by Robert the Bruce against his rival Comyn in 1308 & the Battle of Harlaw fought in defence of the East by Red Harlaw against the Lord of the Isles in 1411. Today Inverurie is a peaceful town, with surrounding countryside displaying beautiful contrasts of river valley, green or golden fields, thick forests and rough heather clad slopes