Buchan Ness Lighthouse
'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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Iain Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Buchan Ness lighthouse” and “Buchan Ness Lighthouse, Boddam”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Brethren Meeting House and Peterhead Power Station.
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. Brethren Meeting House is situated 1,200 feet west of Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
Peterhead Power Station
Power station
Photo: PortHenry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peterhead Power Station is a multi-unit station owned and operated by SSE plc, with a capacity of 2,177 MW. It is located near Boddam and the A90, just south of Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland. Peterhead Power Station is situated 3,800 feet northwest of Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
HM Prison Peterhead
Museum
Photo: Sagaciousphil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HMP Peterhead was a prison in Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, operating from 1888 to 2013. Since June 2016, the former grounds operate as the Peterhead Prison Museum. HM Prison Peterhead is situated 1½ miles northwest of Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buchan Ness and Boddam.
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.
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.
Clerkhill
Suburb
Photo: Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clerkhill is an area of the town of Peterhead in north east Scotland. Surrounded by the areas of Meethill, Dales Park and Coplandhill, it is one of the bigger areas of the town. Clerkhill is situated 2½ miles northwest of Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
Buchan Ness Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.47044° or 57° 28′ 14″ northLongitude
-1.77446° or 1° 46′ 28″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)Open location code
9C9WF6CG+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 301240357OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Polish—“Buchan Ness Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Maják Buchan Ness”
- French: “phare de Buchan Ness”
- French: “Phare de Buchan Ness”
- German: “Buchan Ness Lighthouse”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska Buchan Ness”
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