Links Bay
Links Bay is a bay in Scotland, United Kingdom. Links Bay is situated nearby to the village Sandend, as well as near Fordyce.Places of Interest
Highlights include Boyne Castle and Glenglassaugh distillery.
Boyne Castle
Ruins
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boyne Castle is a 16th-century quadrangular castle about 1.5 miles east of Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 0.5 miles south of Boyne Bay.
Glenglassaugh distillery
Distillery
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portsoy and Sandend.
Portsoy
Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Sandend
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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".
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.
Links Bay
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.68495° or 57° 41′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.68316° or 2° 40′ 59″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9C9VM8M8+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 10665160307OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
11152793
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Satellite Map
Discover Links Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Portsoy Salmon Bothy and Portsoy Links Caravan Park.
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