Findochty

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The place we most enjoyed visiting pwas Findochty (locally known as Finechty!) The locals are rightly very proud of their village with its colourful painted cottages and scenic harbour at the heart of it.  In its heyday of the 1800s the harbour was a safe haven to 8O+ boats.  Nowadays it would be classed as a marina with only a few fishing vessels operating out of it.

A short walk up the hill from the harbour is the village war memorial beside which stands an anchor commemorating 300 years of Findochty’s existence (1716-2016).  What a splendid view you get from up there.

It is common for fishing villages in Scotland to have several places of worship, whether mainstream churches or halls used by smaller sects and there are quite a few in Findochty.  The white-painted Church of Scotland is prominently placed on the hill above the harbour.  On the aptly named Chapel Street there are three churches, a Methodist Church, a Salvation Army Citadel and the Meeting Place (of the Christian Brethren).