Whitehills
Banffshire Coast Leaflet (500K)If there is such a thing as a sheltered area on the Banffshire Coast, then Whitehills occupies it. Less than two miles west of Banff this former fishing village now boasts an award winning marina in the old harbour. Whitehills is now a bustling leisure port with a secure inner basin and extensive range of shoreside facilities and wifi access.
Recycling and reusing may be increasingly popular and proponents of this can look to the thrifty folk of Whitehills for an exemplar. In the early part of the 19th century, when a new Parish church was planned for the village, bargain-spotting residents purchased a disused church in Banff, dismantled it, moved it stone by stone and rebuilt it on its current spot.
Churches towers and spires pepper the skyline of Banffshire’s coast – a visible and far reaching reminder to those who make their living on the sea that a greater being is watching over them.
Slightly inland from the coast and only a couple of miles from Whitehills lies Boyndie. RAF Banff was based here in the 1940’s and more than 2000 RAF pilots were trained at this airfield. From 1944 Boyndie was home to the RAF Banff Strike Wing which targeted U Boats and surface vessels in the North Sea and along the German occupied Norwegian coastline. Eighty airmen were killed in operations from Boyndie in the last nine months of World War II.
In more recent times, Boyndie has become home to Scotland’s first co-operative wind farm. It’s worth comparing the ‘Cup and Saucer’ windmill remains by Sandend with these new sleek machines.
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