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Pennan
A single row of white cottages squeezed between red sandstone cliffs and the sea, reached by a steep hairpin lane off the B9031. Star of the 1983 film Local Hero. Its red phone box is now listed.
20 km · about 25 min drive
Scotland, United Kingdom · Europe
Turriff is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Aberchirder, 40km from Slains Castle.
Turriff is in Scotland, United Kingdom, with about 5,100 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Aberchirder, about 10 km away.
Turriff (from Scottish Gaelic Torraibh 'place of round hills') is a town and civil parish in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. It lies on the River Deveron, about 166 feet (51 m) above sea level, and has a population of 5,708. In everyday speech it is often referred to by its Scots name Turra, which is derived from theRead more
Scottish Gaelic pronunciation.
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Within an hour or so of Turriff: Pennan (20 km), Pennan (Local Hero phone box) (20 km), Bow Fiddle Rock (30 km), Grampian Transport Museum (37 km).
The nearest famous roads are The Lecht (A939 Old Military Road), The Lecht Road (A939) and Cairnwell Pass.
Turriff is in Scotland, United Kingdom, about 10 km from Aberchirder.
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photogenic
A single row of white cottages squeezed between red sandstone cliffs and the sea, reached by a steep hairpin lane off the B9031. Star of the 1983 film Local Hero. Its red phone box is now listed.
20 km · about 25 min drive
film location
The red telephone box on the harbour front of this Aberdeenshire village is Local Hero's most famous prop, now a listed structure.
20 km · about 25 min drive
photogenic
Sea arch shaped like the tip of a fiddle bow, a short walk from the village of Portknockie on the Moray coast. At dawn the quartzite arch glows pink and doubles in the still water; dolphins pass close inshore.
30 km · about 35 min drive
museum
Acclaimed motoring museum in Alford, Aberdeenshire, with everything from steam locomotives to supercars, plus its own outdoor test track used for summer motoring events.
37 km · about 45 min drive
ancient ruins
A gaunt roofless clifftop ruin near Cruden Bay, said to have helped inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula. Unfenced drops — take care.
40 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
The Speyside distillery at Dufftown that is still family-owned and among the largest single malt producers in the world.
41 km · about 45 min drive
castle
A pink harled tower house in Aberdeenshire, its top-heavy turrets often cited as an inspiration for fairytale castle design.
43 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
A Speyside distillery with a much-photographed turf-roofed visitor building set into the hillside above the Spey.
45 km · about 50 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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