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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balmoor Stadium and HM Prison Peterhead.
Balmoor Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Balmoor is an association football ground in the Scottish town of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. It is home to Peterhead. The stadium has a capacity of 3,150 spectators, of which 1,000 can be seated.
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 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 Boddam and Inverugie.
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. Boddam is situated 2½ miles south of Peterhead.
Inverugie
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inverugie is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to the northwest of Peterhead. Inverugie is situated 2½ miles northwest of Peterhead.
Buchanhaven
Suburb
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Buchanhaven is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dating to around 1739. It is one mile north of Peterhead town centre, and near to the mouth of the River Ugie.
Peterhead
- Type: Town with 19,800 residents
- Description: town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.5053° or 57° 30′ 19″ northLongitude
-1.7813° or 1° 46′ 53″ westPopulation
19,800Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PHDOpen location code
9C9WG649+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 500959309OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Peterhead” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Peterhead”
- Basque: “Peterhead”
- Belarusian: “Пітэрхед”
- Bengali: “পিটারহেড”
- Bulgarian: “Питърхед”
- Catalan: “Peterhead”
- Cebuano: “Peterhead”
- Chinese: “彼得赫德”
- Chinese: “彼得黑德”
- Czech: “Peterhead”
- Danish: “Peterhead”
- Dutch: “Peterhead”
- Esperanto: “Peterhead”
- French: “Peterhead”
- Galician: “Peterhead”
- German: “Peterhead”
- Gujarati: “પીટરહેડ”
- Hebrew: “פיטרהאד”
- Hungarian: “Peterhead”
- Irish: “Ceann Phádraig”
- Irish: “Ceann Phàdraig”
- Italian: “Peterhead”
- Japanese: “ピーターヘッド”
- Kannada: “ಪೀಟರ್ಹೆಡ್”
- Korean: “피터해드”
- Lithuanian: “Piterhedas”
- Lithuanian: “Pyterhedas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peterhead”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peterhead”
- Norwegian: “Peterhead”
- Persian: “پیترهد”
- Polish: “Peterhead”
- Portuguese: “Peterhead”
- Russian: “Питерхед”
- Scots: “Peterheid”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceann Phàdraig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Peterhead”
- Slovenian: “Peterhead”
- South Azerbaijani: “پیترهد”
- Spanish: “Peterhead”
- Swedish: “Peterhead”
- Tamil: “பீட்டர்ஹெடு”
- Telugu: “పీటర్ హెడ్”
- Ukrainian: “Пітергед”
- Ukrainian: “Пітерхед”
- Urdu: “پیتیرہیاد”
- Welsh: “Ceann Phàdraig”
- Welsh: “Peterhead”
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