Rattray Head

Rattray Head lighthouse

Looking south across the sand dunes at Rattray Head

Rattray Head ( listen (help·info)) (historically Rattray Point) is a headland in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, on the north east coast Scotland. To north lies Strathbeg Bay and Rattray Bay is to its south. The dunes at Rattray Head beach can be up to seventy-five feet high and stretch approximately 17 miles (27 km) from St Combs to Peterhead.^[1][2]

Rattray Head Lighthouse

The 120 foot (36.5 m)^[1][2] Rattray Head Lighthouse lighthouse was built in 1895.^[3][4] It was built by the engineers and brothers David Alan Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson. In February 1982 it became unmanned and fully automatic.^[1][2]

The lighthouse is accessible via a causeway which is underwater most of the time and only visible at low tide. It is wide enough for a vehicle to cross.

Remains of several shipwrecks can still be seen on the beach today.^[1][2]

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rattray and Rattray Head

• Official Tourism Web Site
• Rattray Head in the Gazetteer for Scotland
• Map sources for Rattray Head
• Panorama of Rattray Head Lighthouse (QuickTime required)

v · d · eSettlements and places of interest in Buchan, Aberdeenshire Primary settlements Boddam · Crimond · Cruden Bay · Fetterangus · Hatton · Longside · Maud · Mintlaw · New Deer · New Pitsligo · Peterhead · St Combs · St Fergus · Strichen · Stuartfield Other settlements Auchnagatt · Buchanhaven · Clola · Inverugie · Lonmay · New Leeds · Old Deer · Rora · Whinnyfold Places of interest Aden Country Park/Aberdeenshire Farming Museum · Bullers of Buchan · Crimonmogate · Deer Abbey · Formartine and Buchan Way · Loch of Strathbeg · Maritime Heritage Museum · Rattray · Rattray Head · Slains Castle

Coordinates: 57°36′43″N 1°49′27″W / 57.61187°N 1.82425°W / 57.61187; -1.82425

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