Inverallochy and Cairnbulg
The villages of Inverallochy and Cairnbulg lie some 4 miles east of Fraserburgh, in North East Scotland. It formerly consisted of the three fishing villages of Brandesburgh, Cairnbulg and Inverallochy, but the former village has since disappeared…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Inverallochy Castle.
Inverallochy Castle
Castle
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Inverallochy Castle is a ruined courtyard castle, near the village of Inverallochy in the Buchan area of North-East Scotland, dating to 1504. It lies 0.5 miles south of Cairnbulg Castle, near Fraserburgh, and formerly stood beside the now-drained Loch of Inverallochy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Combs and Fraserburgh.
St Combs
Village
Photo: Ken Pickering, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Combs is a small fishing village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, immediately southeast of Inverallochy. It has existed since at least the 17th century, and takes its name from a church to St Colm that used to exist in the area and was abandoned in 1607.
Fraserburgh
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Fraserburgh is a fishing port in Aberdeenshire, with a population in 2020 of 13,000. In the 19th century it was a major port for herring, and shell-fishing is still an important local industry. It hosts the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
Kinnaird Head
Locality
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Kinnaird Head is a headland projecting into the North Sea, within the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, on the east coast of Scotland. The 16th-century Kinnaird Castle was converted in 1787 for use as the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, the first lighthouse in Scotland to be lit by the Commissioners of Northern Lights. Kinnaird Head is situated 3 miles northwest of Inverallochy and Cairnbulg.
Inverallochy and Cairnbulg
- Type: Village with 1,290 residents
- 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
57.67483° or 57° 40′ 29″ northLongitude
-1.92936° or 1° 55′ 46″ westPopulation
1,290Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB IAYOpen location code
9C9WM3FC+W7OpenStreetMap ID
node 242131555OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Inverallochy and Cairnbulg” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Inverallochy and Cairnbulg”
- Dutch: “Inverallochy and Cairnbulg”
- French: “Inverallochy”
- Irish: “Inbhir Aileachaidh”
- Spanish: “Inverallochy and Cairnbulg”
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