Tullos derived its name from a corruption of the Gaelic ‘Tulach’ meaning a hill.

In this extract from the "Book of St. Fittick", published in 1902, Dr. Thomas White Ogilvie describes what the scene looked like in his day.

"It is full of quiet charm, this little glen, with its Kirk on the height and its Kirk in the hollow, extending from the great gap in the cliff, which forms the Bay, up to the river, where, with majestic bend, it sweeps glittering and gurgling by Allenvale and Duthie Park, sweetest of resting places for the quick and the dead."

The area south of the railway line is full of car showrooms, oil yards and waste recycling plants.

Tullos is now home to the headquarters of Northsound Radio and STV North (formerly Grampian Television).