Murdoch Head
Murdoch Head is a cape in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Murdoch Head is situated nearby to the locality Blackhills, as well as near the village Longhaven.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include RRH Buchan and Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
RRH Buchan
Military installation
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Remote Radar Head Buchan or RRH Buchan is an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force. It is located at Stirling Hill, 3.2 kilometres south of Peterhead on the Aberdeenshire coast of northeast Scotland.
Buchan Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
'Buchan Ness lighthouse is a light in Boddam, Aberdeenshire. Scotland. The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations.
Brethren Meeting House
Church
Photo: Seasider53, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brethren Meeting House is a Category C listed building at 26 Gordon Street in Boddam, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was formerly a late-Victorian-era Wesleyan church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bullers of Buchan and Boddam.
Bullers of Buchan
Hamlet
Photo: hayley green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The name Bullers of Buchan refers both to a collapsed sea cave and to the adjacent village, situated about 6 miles south of Peterhead in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Boddam
Village
Photo: Alan Jamieson, CC BY 2.0.
Boddam is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is 29 miles north of Aberdeen and 3 miles south of Peterhead. The settlement of Stirling Village lies immediately to the west.
Buchan Ness
Locality
Buchan Ness is a bridged island that is connected to the village of Boddam on mainland Scotland by a road running over a short causeway. In 2022 the census recorded a permanent population on the island of a single individual.
Murdoch Head
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Mordow Head”
- Category: landform
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.44676° or 57° 26′ 48″ northLongitude
-1.79815° or 1° 47′ 53″ westElevation
121 feet (37 metres)Open location code
9C9WC6W2+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 7679698679OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2641955
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