Towie

Towie ([ˈtaʊ̯wiː]; Scottish Gaelic: Tollaigh "hole place") is a small hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, close to Alford and Lumsden, on the River Don.

One of the most notable features of Towie is its small primary school with nursery, which is located in the village itself. As of September 2011, it had 22 pupils. They then attend Alford Academy. Towie also has a bowling club and a beautiful church with historic graveyard.

It is part of West Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency).

The village is the burial place of Major James Leith (VC).

In 1979, Glenkindie telephone exchange, just North of Towie, became the UK's first digital telephone exchange. As part of general developments towards digital telephony, small rural exchanges of this size were seen as candidates for solid-state exchanges as they might be more reliable than the previous electromechanical Strowger exchanges.

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Coordinates: 57°12′0″N 2°56′7″W / 57.20000°N 2.93528°W / 57.20000; -2.93528

The Only Way Is Essex

The Only Way Is Essex (often abbreviated as TOWIE /ˈtaʊwiː/) is a BAFTA award-winning British "scripted reality" television soap opera based in Brentwood, England. It shows "real people in modified situations, saying unscripted lines but in a structured way." The show is filmed just a few days in advance. It is narrated by Denise van Outen, who is from Basildon, Essex. The show has been described as Britain's answer to The Hills and Jersey Shore.

Each series lasts six weeks, airing on Wednesdays and Sundays at 10pm on ITV2 from 2010 to 2014, although it was announced in February 2014 that the show would be moved to ITV2's sister channel ITVBe when the channel launches. The first series consisted of 10 episodes and ran for 30 minutes, with a Christmas special following later in the year. Due to popularity, the show was extended to 45-minute episodes and renewed for a year's airing. On 22 May 2011, the series won the Audience Award at the 2011 BAFTA Awards. The twelfth series was the last to air on ITV2 before the show moved to ITVBe in October 2014.