Stirling Hill Granite Quarry

Stirling Hill Granite Quarry is a quarry in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Stirling Hill Granite Quarry is situated near the islet Seals‘ Busk, as well as near Boddam Evangelical Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: 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. A bellcote adorns the gable, without a bell but with a "spiky" finial in place. 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″ north

Longitude

-1.79653° or 1° 47′ 48″ west

Open location code

9C9WF673+69

OpenStreetMap ID

way 204096539

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Seals‘ Busk and Boddam Evangelical Church.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Lendrum Terrace and Forehill.

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