Souter’s Hole
Souter’s Hole is a bay in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland.Places of Interest
Highlights include HM Prison Peterhead and 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.
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.
HM Prison Grampian
Prison
HMP & YOI Grampian is a high security prison in Peterhead, Scotland. It is the only such facility in the northeast of the country, having replaced the former HMPs in Aberdeen and Peterhead in 2014.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peterhead and Boddam.
Peterhead
Peterhead is a port in Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland, with a population of 19,060 in 2020. Its fishing industry collapsed in the 20th century and the town is run-down, but is near attractive coastal scenery.
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.
Cruden Bay
Village
Photo: DavidDixon, Public domain.
Cruden Bay is a small village in Scotland, on the north coast of the Bay of Cruden in Aberdeenshire, 26 miles north of Aberdeen. Just west of Slains Castle, local tradition associates Cruden Bay with a supposed battle in which the Scots under King Malcolm…
Souter’s Hole
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.4639° or 57° 27′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.7805° or 1° 46′ 50″ westOpen location code
9C9WF679+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13471362077OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Meikle Donnon and Little Donnon.
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