Port Erroll Harbour

Port Erroll harbour comprises two L-plan piers enclosing a basin which is subdivided by two straight piers to form a main and a spilling basin. It was built 1875-80 by William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, to expand the fishing community he had founded at Cruden Bay in the 1840s. The harbour was one of the first to be constructed in concrete. Unfortunately, the harbour was built too late to benefit fully from the boom in the herring industry. As a tidal harbour it’s limited the size of craft which could use it, and the focus of fishing instead became mackerel fish and shellfish. The harbour is still in use, on a small scale, for fishing and pleasure craft.

(Taken from The historic harbour trail text)

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The harbour is still a working harbour used for small fishing boats, leisure boats, motorhome stopovers and responsible water users.

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