Kinnaird Head Lighthouse

Kinnaird Head is the headland at the north end of Fraserburgh, it marks the end of the Moray Firth. Kinnaird Head Lighthouse was built in 1787 as the first lighthouse in Scotland. The Northern Lighthouse Board’s first engineer, Thomas Smith, identified the headland as one of four vital to light to protect trade to the Baltic Sea. In 1824 Robert Stevenson, Thomas Smith’s son-in-law, and engineer to The Northern Light Board constructed a tower within the castle walls  to hold the weight of a new light.

A fog horn was constructed at Kinnaird Head in 1902, when further improvements were made to the light, it ceased to sound in 1984. The lighthouse at Kinnaird Head is now open to the public, for further information contact The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses   www.lighthousemuseum.org.uk