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Kinnaird Head Castle

📍 Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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Kinnaird Head is a headland projecting into the North Sea, within the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, on the east coast of Scotland. The 16th-century Kinnaird Castle was converted in 1787 for use as the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, the first lighthouse in Scotland to be lit by the Commissioners of Northern Lights. Kinnaird Castle and the nearby Wine Tower were described by W. Douglas Simpson as two of the nine castles of the Knuckle, referring to the rocky headland of north-east Aberdeenshire. The lighthouse is a category A listed building. and the Wine Tower. is a scheduled monument. The buildings around the base of the lighthouse are the work of Robert Stevenson.

The tower house was built in 1570 by Sir Alexander Fraser, founder of Fraserburgh. In 1787, the Northern Lighthouse Board converted it into Scotland's first mainland lighthouse, designed by Thomas Smith. Robert Stevenson later modified the light. Now houses the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, telling the story of Scotland's vital lighthouse network. A scheduled ancient monument.