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Rattray Head Lighthouse is the jewel of the Aberdeenshire lighthouses with its stunning location in the North Sea during high tide and with the beautiful sight of a lighthouse and causeway set in the beach during low tide.
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The short walk from the Rattray Head Lighthouse Keepers Cottages car park rewards you with some stunning views across the Rattray Head beach dunes. A further walk from the lighthouse towards St Fergus reveals some ship wreck remains which includes the Excelsior of Laurwig, a 462 tonnage Norwegian barque built in 1869, that ran aground between Scotstown Head and Rattray Head on 22nd November 1881.
The Lighthouse was automated in February 1982 by the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Lighthouse Keepers Cottages are now Bed and Breakfast accommodation.
Rattray Head can be found by taking the Peterhead to Fraserburgh Road where after Starthbeg it is clearly signposted. The road to Rattray Head is narrow with passing places so please drive carefully.
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Rattray Head Lighthouse was built in 1895 by the brother Engineers David Alan Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson. The white light flashed a candle power of 44,000 every 30 seconds at a height of 28 metres for 28 nautical miles.
The lower structure is granite, mostly locally sourced at Rubislaw Quarry Aberdeen, and houses the foghorn and engine room whilst the lighthouse tower, which houses the lighthouse keeper room and lantern, is brick painted white.
Rattray Head Lighthouse is 34 metres high with 64 steps to the top of the tower. The foghorn would have blasted twice every 45 seconds.
Rattray Head Lighthouse Scotland was targeted by the German Luftwaffe during World War Two on 20 September 1941. The plane circled the lighthouse and dropped three bombs of which one did not explode. The Luftwaffe pilot then gunned the lantern with his machine gun but caused no injury to the Lighthouse Keepers or to the equipment.
Mains electric nor a telephone was not supplied to Rattray Head Lighthouse until 1977 when these were laid under the seabed. In 1982 the last Lighthouse Keeper of Rattray Head Lighthouse Scotland was withdrawn when the building became fully automated. More on how this works can be found at www.nlb.org.uk
The history of Rattray head Lighthouse can be read on the Northern Lighthouse Board website at
www.nlb.org.uk/Lighthouse.aspx?id=881
The Rattray Head Lighthouse Cottages were used for the off duty Lighthouse Keepers and their families. They are now Bed and Breakfast accommodation. See www.rattrayhead.net
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I could not resist taking a photo of this weathered piece of driftwood in the sand by the beach on the way to Rattray Head Lighthouse.
Rattray Head Lighthouse
Photographs of Rattray Head Lighthouse Scotland with a visitor guide and the history of Rattray Head Lighthouse Aberdeenshire:Rattray Head Lighthouse is the jewel of the Aberdeenshire lighthouses with its stunning location in the North Sea during high tide and with the beautiful sight of a lighthouse and causeway set in the beach during low tide.
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My new novel:
The Aberdeen skies are under attack from an enemy jet. It is spilling a strange yellow smoke. Minutes later, people start killing each other.
Former Royal Air Force Regiment Gunner Jason Harper witnesses this and then his wife, Pippa, telephones him, shouting that she needs him. They then get cut off. He sets straight out, unprepared for the nightmare that unfolds during his journey. Everyone seems to want to kill him.
Along the way, he pairs up with fellow survivor Imogen. But she enjoys killing the living dead far too much. Will she kill Jason in her blood thirst? Or will she hinder his journey through this zombie filled dystopian landscape to find his pregnant wife?
The Fence is the first in this series of post-apocalyptic military survival thrillers from the torturous mind of local horror and science fiction novel writer C.G. Buswell.
Download Now.
Buy the Paperback.
The short walk from the Rattray Head Lighthouse Keepers Cottages car park rewards you with some stunning views across the Rattray Head beach dunes. A further walk from the lighthouse towards St Fergus reveals some ship wreck remains which includes the Excelsior of Laurwig, a 462 tonnage Norwegian barque built in 1869, that ran aground between Scotstown Head and Rattray Head on 22nd November 1881.
The Lighthouse was automated in February 1982 by the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Lighthouse Keepers Cottages are now Bed and Breakfast accommodation.
Rattray Head can be found by taking the Peterhead to Fraserburgh Road where after Starthbeg it is clearly signposted. The road to Rattray Head is narrow with passing places so please drive carefully.
Have you seen my beautiful golden retriever Lynne out and about in Aberdeen? Ask her for a high-five! She's a Bravehound PTSD assistance dog, so we'll often be in shops, restaurants, and the cinema together.
We've written a book where I talk about growing up in Aberdeen and then joining the army to be a medic and nurse, and developing military Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I also talk about losing my son to suicide and the therapy I have had at Royal Cornhill Hospital and grief support groups in Aberdeen.
The author, Damien Lewis, said of Lynne:
"A powerful account of what one dog means to one man on his road to recovery. Both heart-warming and life-affirming. Bravo Chris and Lynne. Bravo Bravehound."
Download.
Buy the paperback.
An army veteran moves his family back to his Aberdeenshire home, but his nightmare neighbour starts a battle of wits with him. Who will win this One Last War?
Buy this latest novel by local author C.G. Buswell on Kindle or Paperback.
Advertise Here from just £70.
Rattray Head Lighthouse Scotland
Rattray Head Lighthouse was built in 1895 by the brother Engineers David Alan Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson. The white light flashed a candle power of 44,000 every 30 seconds at a height of 28 metres for 28 nautical miles.
The lower structure is granite, mostly locally sourced at Rubislaw Quarry Aberdeen, and houses the foghorn and engine room whilst the lighthouse tower, which houses the lighthouse keeper room and lantern, is brick painted white.
Rattray Head Lighthouse is 34 metres high with 64 steps to the top of the tower. The foghorn would have blasted twice every 45 seconds.
Rattray Head Lighthouse Scotland was targeted by the German Luftwaffe during World War Two on 20 September 1941. The plane circled the lighthouse and dropped three bombs of which one did not explode. The Luftwaffe pilot then gunned the lantern with his machine gun but caused no injury to the Lighthouse Keepers or to the equipment.
Mains electric nor a telephone was not supplied to Rattray Head Lighthouse until 1977 when these were laid under the seabed. In 1982 the last Lighthouse Keeper of Rattray Head Lighthouse Scotland was withdrawn when the building became fully automated. More on how this works can be found at www.nlb.org.uk
The history of Rattray head Lighthouse can be read on the Northern Lighthouse Board website at
www.nlb.org.uk/Lighthouse.aspx?id=881
Rattray Head Lighthouse Cottages
The Rattray Head Lighthouse Cottages were used for the off duty Lighthouse Keepers and their families. They are now Bed and Breakfast accommodation. See www.rattrayhead.net
More Lighthouses of Aberdeenshire.
More Things To Do In Aberdeenshire.
I could not resist taking a photo of this weathered piece of driftwood in the sand by the beach on the way to Rattray Head Lighthouse.
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