Cruden Bay
Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Chruidein
Cruden Bay shown within Scotland
Population	est. 1,660 (2004) [1]
OS grid reference	NO830726
Council area	Aberdeenshire
Lieutenancy area	Aberdeenshire
Constituent country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ELLON
Postcode district	AB42
Dialling code	0177981
Police	Grampian
Fire	Grampian
Ambulance	Scottish
European Parliament	Scotland
List of places: UK • Scotland

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Cruden Bay is a village in Scotland, on the north coast of the Bay of Cruden in Aberdeenshire, 26 miles North of Aberdeen. Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ... This article is about the country. ... Logo of Aberdeenshire Council Aberdeenshire (Siorrachd Obar Dheathain in Gaelic) is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland. ... For other uses, see Aberdeen (disambiguation). ...

Just south of Slains Castle, Cruden Bay was the site of a battle between Danes and Scots under King Malcolm II in 1012. Traditionally, the name was derived from the Gaelic Croch Dain (Slaughter of Danes), although Crùidein (kingfisher) has also been suggested; such birds still being seen in the nearby estuary. Slains Castle is a ruined castle near Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, overlooking the North Sea. ... This article is about the Scottish people as an ethnic group. ... Máel Coluim mac Cináeda (anglicised Malcolm II) (c. ... Mael Morda starts a rebellion against Brian Boru in Ireland, which would eventually end in 1014 at the Battle of Clontarf. ... // Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...

Today, Cruden Bay attracts tourists with its hotels and well-known golf course. It has a long, unspoiled, beach made famous by Norwegian aviator Tryggve Gran who made the first solo flight across the North Sea.^[1] This article is about the game. ... Jens Tryggve Herman Gran (January 20, 1889 - January 8, 1980) was a Norwegian aviator, explorer and author. ...

Literary associations

The town has associations with various figures in literature.

Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell were guests at Slains Castle in 1773. Johnson said that "no man can see with indifference" the sea chasm known as the Bullers of Buchan, which is near the town. For other persons named Samuel Johnson, see Samuel Johnson (disambiguation). ... James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck and 1st Baronet (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Slains Castle is a ruined castle near Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, overlooking the North Sea. ...

Dun Bay, or Yellow Rock is also near the Bullers of Buchan, and is associated with Walter Scott's The Antiquary. Raeburns portrait of Sir Walter Scott in 1822. ... In his novel Italic textThe AntiquaryItalic text Walter Scott romanticises the life of a collector of old things. ...

Bram Stoker holidayed first at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel^[2] and then at nearby Whinneyfold from 1894. Slains Castle inspired Dracula, since Stoker was a regular guest at the Kilmarnock Arms, and Stoker’s novel The Mystery of the Sea and some short stories use have Cruden Bay as their setting. Abraham Bram Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories, who is best known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula. ... Whinneyfold is the name of a small village in Scotland above the southern extremity of the Bay of Cruden in Aberdeenshire. ... This article is about the novel. ...

James Macpherson's poem The Highlander (1758) takes the battle of Cruden as its model. James Macpherson (October 27, 1736–February 17, 1796), was a Scottish poet, known as the translator of the Ossian cycle of poems (also known as the Oisín cycle). ...

Beginnings

The nearby clifftop Slains Castle was begun in 1597 and abandoned and unroofed for tax purposes in the 1920s. It was given to the Earl of Errol by Robert the Bruce. Slains Castle is a ruined castle near Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, overlooking the North Sea. ...

Bishop's Bridge spans Cruden Water and dates from 1697.

William Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll , established the fishing community of Port Erroll in the 1840s and 1850s, adding a functional harbour at the mouth of the Water of Cruden in the 1870s. Before that a tiny, now long-abandoned hamlet of rudimentary fisher cottages, simply known as Ward, stood exposed on top of Ward Hill, just above the harbour site. There was also a parish school since 1606, housed in the elegant two-storey Erroll Schoolhouse^[3] (now a B & B) from 1834; the Presbyterian St Olaf or simply Old Kirk (1776, with distinctive conical towers added in 1833); and St James Episcopal Church^[4] on top of Chapel Hill in 1842.

Fishing community and seaside resort

Harbour Street,Cruden Bay

Port Erroll developed as a fishing community to some extent, but the tidal nature of the harbour restricted the size of craft which could operate from it and the village missed out on the herring boom. However, tourism provided another source of income for the village. Even before the coming of the railway, the long pink curve of the Bay of Cruden sands and spectacular cliffscapes to the north was attracting visitors and a small seaside resort was grafting itself onto the fishing community. The Cruden Bay Golfing Society, founded remarkably early in 1791, played on the open links. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (703x728, 146 KB) Harbour Street, Cruden Bay Photograph taken by David David 18 June 2006, donated to public domain. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (703x728, 146 KB) Harbour Street, Cruden Bay Photograph taken by David David 18 June 2006, donated to public domain. ...

The coming and going of the railway

The railway brought grandeur but not lasting prosperity to Cruden Bay. The branch line from Ellon to Boddam near Peterhead was opened in 1897, along with the golf course^[5] and the 55-bedroom Cruden Bay Hotel two years later. A tramway was added linking the station and hotel. The Great North of Scotland Railway Company promoted Cruden Bay as a Brighton of the North, only twelve hours from London and an ideal escape for gentry and nouveau riche. However, despite initial enthusiasm neither railway nor hotel took off. The railway was closed to passengers in 1932, and in 1939 the hotel was requisitioned as an army hospital, and never re-opened after the war. However, Cruden Bay remains a golfing destination, and the village still sustains three smaller hotels. Additionally, although both the harbour area and the local primary school^[6] are still styled "Port Errol", the railway adventure put the name Cruden Bay firmly on the map. Ellon (Gaelic: Ealain) is a town of about 9540 (2004) neds in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 16 miles north of Aberdeen. ... , For the village on the Shetland Islands, see Boddam, Shetland. ... , There is also a suburb of Adelaide named Peterhead, South Australia Peterhead called Ceann Phadraig in Gaelic is a town in Scotland with a population of approximately 18,000. ... For other places with the same name, see Brighton (disambiguation). ... For the Philadephia-based Post-Genre group, see Nouveau Riche (Philadelphia band). ...

Cruden Bay today

The 1950s and 1960s was a period of rapid population decline for Cruden Bay, but the coming of North Sea Oil to north-east Scotland, with its attendant jobs and families looking for good communities and picturesque places to settle in, reinvigorated the village, and population rose again with new housing added near the now-closed brickworks, the site of the demolished Cruden Bay Hotel and along the Water of Cruden at Morrison Place. These days Cruden Bay serves mainly as a dormitory village for the important settlements of Peterhead to the north and Aberdeen to the South. However, the eighteenth century timbered salmon station still operates, and some seasonal commercial fishing continues. Commuters waiting for the morning train in Maplewood, New Jersey to travel to New York City A commuter town is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commute out of the community to earn their livelihood. ... , There is also a suburb of Adelaide named Peterhead, South Australia Peterhead called Ceann Phadraig in Gaelic is a town in Scotland with a population of approximately 18,000. ... For other uses, see Aberdeen (disambiguation). ...

Oil pipeline

Although there is little evidence of its presence other than a small complex a few miles south of the village, the sands at Cruden Bay is the place where the 110-mile long pipeline operated by British Petroleum, in use from 1975, finds landfall.^[7] It pumps crude oil from the Forties oilfield to Port Errol, then onward by overland pipeline to Grangemouth. The Forties oilfield is the largest oilfield ever discovered in the North Sea. ... Grangemouth petrochemical works, November 2006 A map of Grangemouth from 1945 Grangemouth is a town and former burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland, and formerly in the County of Stirling. ...

Amenities

• Primary school with pre-school nursery
• Library
• Post office / General store
• Newsagent
• Medical Practise
• Pharmacy
• Golf course
• Three hotels
• General grocers
• Public house
• Take-away

References

External links

• Official Tourist Web Site
• Cruden Bay Community web site
• Cruden Bay Tramway page at the LNER Encyclopedia
• Peterhead Area Business Directory

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