Kinnaird Head Lighthouse

Out and about today, needed some fresh air.
Weather is bright but apparently snow is threatened.


Kinnaird Head is the headland at the north end of Fraserburgh, it marks the end of the Moray Firth. Kinnaird Head Lighthouse was built in 1787 as the first lighthouse in Scotland. The Northern Lighthouse Board's first engineer, Thomas Smith, identified the headland as one of four vital to light to protect trade to the Baltic Sea. In 1824 Robert Stevenson, Thomas Smith's son-in-law, and engineer to The Northern Light Board constructed a tower within the castle walls to hold the weight of a new light.