Glenglassaugh Visitor Centre & Shop

Glenglassaugh Visitor Centre & Shop is a tourism office in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland. Glenglassaugh Visitor Centre & Shop is situated nearby to Glenglassaugh distillery, as well as near the building Sandend, Windmill.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Glenglassaugh distillery and Fordyce Castle.

Glenglassaugh distillery

Distillery

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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.

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 1¼ miles south of Glenglassaugh Visitor Centre & Shop.

Fordyce Academy

School

Fordyce Academy, known until the mid-19th century as Fordyce School, and also sometimes called Smith's Academy, was a famous grammar school in the village of Fordyce, Banffshire, Scotland, founded about 1592, refounded in 1790, and closed in 1964. Fordyce Academy is situated 1½ miles south of Glenglassaugh Visitor Centre & Shop.

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".

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.

Portsoy

Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 2022 the population was 1700.

Glenglassaugh Visitor Centre & Shop

Type: Tourism office
Categories: information, building, tourism, and retail building
Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.67964° or 57° 40′ 47″ north

Longitude

-2.73697° or 2° 44′ 13″ west

Open location code

9C9VM7H7+V6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 618896331

OpenStreetMap feature

building=retail

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sandend, Windmill and Sanine Beach.

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