Whitehills

Today Whitehills harbour hosts more leisure craft than fishing vessels

Whitehills is a small fishing village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that lies three miles west of Banff on the Moray Firth.

Attractions

In 1999, the fishing harbour was developed as a leisure marina, called the Whitehills Marina.^[1] The marina offers facilities for visiting sailors and hosts an annual sailing regatta in August. The marina has 47 pontoon berths and is accessible at all states of the tide. Drying out for maintenance is possible in a purpose-built bay of the inner harbour.

The village has a post office, a library, a small grocery shop, a beauty salon and a fish and chip restaurant. There is a pub, The Cutty. A 5 bedroom hotel, The Seafield Arms, with a bar & restaurant. There is a restaurant, The Galley, by the harbour. There is a fishmonger, Downies, near the harbour. There is a potter, Watergaw Ceramics, in Chapel Street.

A five miles long coastal path stretches from the Whitehills Harbour to Banff Harbour.^[2]

Lifeboat

Between 1924 and 1969 Whitehills had an RNLI lifeboat station. The station was transferred from Banff and in 1932 a new boathouse and slipway (which still stand today) were constructed for a new motor lifeboat. Whitehills received a new 47 ft Watson-class boat in 1961, but this was withdrawn and the station closed in 1969 after launching only eleven times in eight years.

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Settlements and places of interest in Banff and Buchan, Aberdeenshire
Primary settlements	Aberchirder Banff Fraserburgh Gardenstown Inverallochy and Cairnbulg Macduff Portsoy Rosehearty Sandhaven Whitehills
Other settlements	Boyndie Broadsea Cornhill Cortes Crovie Fordyce King Edward Memsie Netherbrae New Aberdour New Byth Pennan Sandend
Places of interest	Duff House Findlater Castle Kinnaird Head Lighthouse Memsie Cairn

Areas and primary settlements in Aberdeenshire (see also: Aberdeen City)
in Banff and Buchan	Aberchirder Banff Fraserburgh Gardenstown Inverallochy and Cairnbulg Macduff Portsoy Rosehearty Sandhaven Whitehills
in Buchan	Boddam Crimond Cruden Bay Fetterangus Hatton Longside Maud Mintlaw New Deer New Pitsligo Peterhead St Combs St Fergus Strichen Stuartfield
in Formartine	Balmedie Cuminestown Ellon Fyvie Newburgh Oldmeldrum Pitmedden Potterton Rothienorman Tarves Turriff
in Garioch	Blackburn Insch Inverurie Kemnay Kintore Newmachar Westhill
in Kincardine and Mearns	Drumoak Fettercairn Gourdon Inverbervie Johnshaven Laurencekirk Newtonhill Portlethen St Cyrus Stonehaven
in Marr	Aboyne Alford Ballater Banchory Braemar Huntly Lumphanan Tarland Torphins

Coordinates: 57°40′N 2°35′W / 57.667°N 2.583°W / 57.667; -2.583