Portsoy
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lee.Klement, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boyne Castle and Fordyce Castle.
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.
Fordyce Castle
Castle
Photo: Dominic Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fordyce Castle is a T-plan castle, its oldest part dating from 1592, about three miles south-west of Portsoy, in the village of Fordyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Fordyce Castle is situated 2½ miles southwest of Portsoy.
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 Sandend and Fordyce.
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". Sandend is situated 2 miles west of Portsoy.
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. Fordyce is situated 2½ miles southwest of Portsoy.
Whitehills
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitehills is a small fishing village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, that lies three miles west of Banff on the Moray Firth. It is part of the historic county of Banffshire. Whitehills is situated 4 miles east of Portsoy.
Portsoy
- Type: Town with 1,730 residents
- Description: village and former small burgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: village, small burgh, and locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.6816° or 57° 40′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.6907° or 2° 41′ 27″ westPopulation
1,730Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PSYOpen location code
9C9VM8J5+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 31817979OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Portsoy” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Portsoy”
- Bulgarian: “Порцой”
- Cebuano: “Portsoy”
- Dutch: “Portsoy”
- French: “Portsoy”
- German: “Portsoy”
- Irish: “Port Saoidh”
- Italian: “Portsoy”
- Japanese: “ポートソイ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portsoy”
- Norwegian: “Portsoy”
- Persian: “پورتسوی”
- Scots: “Portsoy”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port Saoidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Portsoy”
- Spanish: “Portsoy”
- Swedish: “Portsoy”
- Welsh: “Portsoy”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Portsoy”. Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.