Sandend
Sandend is a small fishing village near Banff and Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, typical of the area. It was "a considerable seatown as early as 1624".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glenglassaugh distillery and Fordyce Castle.
Glenglassaugh distillery
Distillery
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Glenglassaugh distillery is a malt scotch whisky distillery at Sandend in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It restarted production in November 2008 after being acquired by an independent investment group. It was then bought by Brown-Forman and mothballed in 2025.
Fordyce Castle
Castle
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Fordyce Castle is a T-plan castle, its oldest part dating from 1592, about three miles south-west of Portsoy, in the village of Fordyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Fordyce Castle is situated 1½ miles south of Sandend.
Fordyce Academy
School
Fordyce Academy, known until the mid-19th century as Fordyce School, and also sometimes called Smith's Academy, was a famous grammar school in the village of Fordyce, Banffshire, Scotland, founded about 1592, refounded in 1790, and closed in 1964. Fordyce Academy is situated 1½ miles south of Sandend.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fordyce and Portsoy.
Fordyce
Village
Photo: Dominic Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fordyce is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that is slightly inland from the point where the Burn of Fordyce meets the sea between Cullen and Portsoy. Fordyce is situated 1½ miles south of Sandend.
Portsoy
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Portsoy is a fishing village 8 miles west of Banff on the north coast of Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland. It has a picturesque harbour often used as a film and TV location, such as the 2016 remake of Whisky Galore! In 2020 the population was 1690.
Lintmill
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lintmill is a village, which is situated 2½ miles west of Sandend.
Sandend
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.68421° or 57° 41′ 3″ northLongitude
-2.74978° or 2° 44′ 59″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
9C9VM7M2+M3OpenStreetMap ID
node 31818702OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scots—“Sandend” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sandend”
- Dutch: “Sandend”
- French: “Sandend”
- Scots: “Saneyn”
- Scots: “Sanine”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sandend”. Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.