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The 9 Best Things to do in Burghead, Scotland
Discover the best top things to do in Burghead, United Kingdom including Highland Spirit Tours, Shetland Bus Memorial, Roseisle Beach, Equus, Burghead Harbour, Burghead Fort, Visitor Centre Burghead, Moray Firth Fishing Charters, Burghead Harbour.
1. Highland Spirit Tours
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5.0 based on 22 reviews
Take a Speyside Whisky Tour and discover the area's distilleries and whiskies with Highland Spirit Tours. We offer affordable, private whisky tours. Our whisky tours are tailor made and designed around you requirements and preferences. They tend to run from one to three days and you can enjoy a mixture of tours and tastings. Departures from your hotel/accommodation including Elgin, Forres, Inverness, Moray, Speyside, Grantown on Spey, Aviemore and more. Although we specialise in whisky tours in Speyside, we also have a Highland Highlights Tour. Enjoy the area's history in the morning which can include visits to some of the following: Culloden, Clava Cairns, Cawdor and Brodie Castle. In the afternoon, visit a whisky distillery or two.
2. Shetland Bus Memorial
3. Roseisle Beach
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4.5 based on 68 reviews
Reviewed By 464shelaghc - Liverpool, United Kingdom
A wonderful beach to walk your dog, miles of beautiful clean sand. Great look out point from the top of the dunes, great photo opportunities, Magnificent woods for hikes, dog walking and BBQ's - try a breakfast bbq. can't be faulted!
4. Equus
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4.5 based on 12 reviews
Horse riding lessons, treks, beach hack, forest walks.
Reviewed By kpalm2014
Went for a beach ride on Pops and Zara. Pops is a laid back handsome, gentle giant and I knew I was in safe hands. My 10 yr old son rode Zara and was off cantering and galloping up the beach in no time, he absolutely loved his adventure and is already wanting to go again. Thank you to our instructors , Alice for yapping to me on the way round and Laura( I think) for taking the lead, being patient and giving my boy the best beach ride ever. Great horses and great staff.
5. Burghead Harbour
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By Neenthewaur - Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
So much to say about this quaint and busy harbour, which is near a huge beach and forest and coastal walks, most of which are signposted within the port area itself. You can see fish and shellfish being landed or even take a boat trip (sightseeing or line fishing). The public toilets were open, clean and cared for, which is so important in these times when some public facilities are still closed. A curious seal watched the fishermen and women for anything that accidentally landed in the water and there's an amazing rock-and-step stairway at the farthest reach which takes you to a viewpoint on the way to the site of the Pictish Fort and the other attractions of this peninsula. The top of the rugged stair is a dramatic place to be when the tide is in! One tip would be to go up the steps, but walk back into Burghead village alongside the coastguard houses with the harbour below on your right. However, if you feel brave enough to go back down the steps ... go for it (but please be careful). The old grain houses (now flats) alongside the harbour were designed by the same man who built the port, the multi-skilled Thomas Telford and - because this is still a working harbour - there are reminders all around of its past glories and present usefulness. We walked all round the U-shape three times and still spotted new sights every time. A most enjoyable outdoor experience.
6. Burghead Fort
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By Neenthewaur - Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
The biggest Pictish Fort in Scotland once stood right here on this glorious headland with its outlook in all directions. Defended by rocks, flowing tides, deceptive sands and crashing seas on three sides - yet with the height to see enemies silly enough to chance the narrow land approach while they were still polishing their swords and eating their breakfasts - this once-enormous broch-style promontary fort is still a bit of a mystery, as are the Picts themselves, and finds have been carbon dated to between the 4th and 7th centuries. Uniquely associated with the headland are 25-30 recorded Pictish tablet stones showing carved, powerful bulls, though, sadly, only about six remain accounted for. Much of the substance of this once-commanding place was demolished or covered over in the creation of modern Burghead, which became a vital fishing, grain and trading port in the early 1800s, and provided much needed work and housing for locals and refugees from the Highland Clearances. Enough of the landscape is identifiable, however, and you can walk all over the remaining two levels of this grassy fort, imagining the Picts setting sail to repel Viking invaders (though the Norsemen's descendants conquered and settled here in later centuries), guarding the 8 metre thick, 6 metre high fortifications, or taking part in their strange ceremonies of which we know so little. Within the walls of the ramparts, there is an enclosed and impressive well, the use of which can only be guessed at. Local historians suggest it might have been a Pictish ritual drowning pool, or perhaps an early Christian place of baptism. Maybe the Brochers just wanted a safe water supply within their secure area Everywhere in Burghead, there are signs and boards telling you what you are looking at, so it's a joy to visit at this time, even when most seasonal or public attractions like the well are necessarily restricted or shut for health and safety reasons. There are some curious additions to the sights around the fort site. One is the blackened plinth on the Doorie Hill (which is actually one of the fort's few remaining high fortifications), but the charred stump is marginally more recent - again, nobody really knows how old - and it marks the spectacular final resting place of the blazing clavie (barrel) which is what Burghead is most famous for every winter when the "auld" New Year is seen out in a glorious fire festival dating back at least 300 years. In a short, pleasant, grassy walk and scramble, you can take in the fort and marvel at the extent of this site which still points an impressive, forbidding finger against the challenges of the North Sea. So much about the Picts has been lost or never understood, this gets full marks from me for just still being there, slumbering, but awaiting our curiosity and imagination.
7. Visitor Centre Burghead
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4.0 based on 34 reviews
Reviewed By DavidWhalleyBurghead - Burghead, United Kingdom
A superb addition run by volunteers with some wonderful information. From here you can see all kinds of wild life and if lucky our local dolphins. There is always someone about who can help you. Its always worth remembering that it is run by volunteers leave a donation please.
8. Moray Firth Fishing Charters
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
