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Braemar is a village in Aberdeenshire, around 58 mi west of Aberdeen in the Highlands. Sitting at an altitude of 339 m, Braemar is the third coldest low lying place in the UK, after the villages of Dalwhinnie and Leadhills. It has twice entered the UK Weather Records with the lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2oC, on 11 February 1895, and 10 January 1982. Photo credit: Paul Chapman