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[[Image:Potarch Green and hotel.jpg|thumb|The green and the hotel at Potarch]]
'''Potarch''' ({{IPAc-en|p|ɒ|t|'|a:r|x}} {{respell|pot|ARKH}}) is a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] in [[Aberdeenshire]], Scotland, with a bridge across the [[River Dee, Aberdeenshire|River Dee]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst4128.html  |title=Potarch |publisher=[[Gazetteer for Scotland]] |accessdate=2007-04-28}}</ref>

It is a popular location with [[tourists]] and [[day-tripper]]s, and has a hotel.<ref>[http://www.aberdeentoday.co.uk/shotel_detail.asp?id=125101 Aberdeen Today: Potarch Hotel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128085109/http://www.aberdeentoday.co.uk/shotel_detail.asp?id=125101|date=2007-01-28}}</ref>

The historic pair of Scottish lifting stones, [[Dinnie Stones]] are kept at the Potarch Hotel. They were made famous by strongman [[Donald Dinnie]], who reportedly carried the stones barehanded across the width of the Potarch Bridge, a distance of {{convert|17|ft|1+1/2|in|m|2|abbr=off}}, in 1860.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedinniestones.com/ |title=The Dinnie Stones |website=www.thedinniestones.com |access-date=16 October 2020}}</ref><ref>''Secret Scotland with Susan Calman'', [[Channel 5 (UK)|Channel 5]], 16 October 2020.</ref>

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