Stirling Hill Granite Quarry
Stirling Hill Granite Quarry is a quarry in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Stirling Hill Granite Quarry is situated nearby to the islet Seals‘ Busk, as well as near Boddam Evangelical Church.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include RRH Buchan and Buchan Ness Lighthouse.
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. RRH Buchan is situated 3,400 feet southwest of Stirling Hill Granite Quarry.
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. Buchan Ness Lighthouse is situated 1 mile northeast of Stirling Hill Granite Quarry.
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 mile northeast of Stirling Hill Granite Quarry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boddam and Buchan Ness.
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.
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.
Bullers of Buchan
Hamlet
Photo: hayley green, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The name Bullers of Buchan refers both to a collapsed sea cave and to the adjacent village, situated about 6 miles south of Peterhead in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Bullers of Buchan is situated 2½ miles southwest of Stirling Hill Granite Quarry.
Stirling Hill Granite Quarry
- Type: Quarry
- Category: industry
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.46307° or 57° 27′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.79653° or 1° 47′ 48″ westOpen location code
9C9WF673+69OpenStreetMap ID
way 204096539OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Seals‘ Busk and Boddam Evangelical Church.
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