Longhaven Cliffs (Scottish Wildlife Trust)

Longhaven Cliffs (Scottish Wildlife Trust) is a nature reserve in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Longhaven Cliffs (Scottish Wildlife Trust) is situated nearby to the locality Blackhills, as well as near Havensburgh Cottages.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buchan Ness Lighthouse and RRH Buchan.

Buchan Ness Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Buchan Ness lighthouse is a lighthouse 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.

RRH Buchan

Military installation

Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Remote Radar Head Buchan or RRH Buchan is an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force. It is located at Stirling Hill, 3.2 kilometres south of Peterhead on the Aberdeenshire coast of northeast Scotland.

New Slains Castle

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Slains Castle, also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from the nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It overlooks the North Sea from its cliff-top site one kilometre east of Cruden Bay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Peterhead and Boddam.

Peterhead

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

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…

Longhaven Cliffs (Scottish Wildlife Trust)

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.4464° or 57° 26′ 47″ north

Longitude

-1.8001° or 1° 48′ 0″ west

Open location code

9C9WC5WX+HX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2141164738

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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