Towie is a small hamlet and civil parish in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, close to Alford and Lumsden, on the River Don.

[1] One of the most notable features of Towie is its small primary school with nursery, which is located in the village itself.

[2] As of September 2011, it had 22 pupils,[3] before moving up to attend the Alford Academy.

[4] Towie also has a bowling club and a beautiful church with historic graveyard.

[5] 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.