Portsoy

Portsoy ( Gaelic Port Saoidh ) is a village in the Scottish unitary authority Aberdeenshire in the traditional county of Banffshire. It is located about 10 kilometers west of Banff and 15 km east of Buckie on the Moray Firth. In 2001, Portsoy recorded 1734 inhabitants.

Port facilities were built in order to ship the local Portsoy marble. This, however, is not marble, but a mineral of the serpentine group that made import, among others Louis XIV to France and obstruct in Palace of Versailles. Between 1825-1828 a new harbor was built, which was destroyed in a January storm in 1839. In 1884 he was restored to create space for the flourishing herring fishing. Portsoy is also location of the Glenglassaugh distillery founded in 1875 and is located on the border of the major whiskey Speyside. The distillery has a production of 1.1 million liters of whiskey a year.

The A98, which connects Fraserburgh to Fochabers, crosses Portsoy and closes it to the trunk road network. A connection to the railway network has existed since 1859, but the station was closed down.

New Haven

Former railway line

Townscape

The St John 's Episcopal Church from 1840