Head of Garness
Head of Garness is a cape in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Head of Garness is situated nearby to the hamlet Silverhillocks, as well as near Longmanhill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Melrose Head”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tarlair Swimming Pool and Macduff Lifeboat Station.
Tarlair Swimming Pool
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tarlair Swimming Pool is a lido at the base of a sea cliff just outside Macduff in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. This outdoor swimming complex was built in an Art Deco style with a main building backing onto the cliffs and changing rooms to its left hand side.
Macduff Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Mike Rawlins, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Macduff Lifeboat Station is located on Bankhead in Macduff, a harbour town and former Royal Burgh, which sits opposite Banff, Aberdeenshire on the eastern shore of the River Deveron, overlooking Banff Bay in Aberdeenshire, historically Banffshire, in north-east Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Macduff and Gardenstown.
Macduff
Town
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Macduff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Banff across the estuary of the River Deveron.
Gardenstown
Photo: StaraBlazkova, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gardenstown, or Gamrie as it's known, is a fishing village on the northeast coast of Aberdeenshire, with a population of 560 in 2020. It's the largest of the string of attractive villages clinging to this rugged coastline: the other main settlements are Crovie and Pennan.
Banff
Photo: Mussklprozz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Banff is a small fishing port in Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland. It stands on the west bank of the mouth of the River Deveron, with the village of Macduff on the east bank; in 2020 each had a population of about 4000.
Head of Garness
- Category: landform
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.67406° or 57° 40′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.42775° or 2° 25′ 40″ westOpen location code
9C9VMHFC+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 8270521535OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2648863Wikidata ID
Q24643642
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Head of Garness” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Head of Garness”
- Swedish: “Head of Garness”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Silverhillocks and Longmanhill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Headiton Holidays and Seatown Crofts.
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