Buchanhaven is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dating to around 1739. It is one mile north of Peterhead town centre, and near to the mouth of the River Ugie. It has its own school, Buchanhaven Primary School, which caters for children in Buchanhaven and the nearby Waterside estate. It is also the home of Buchanhaven Hearts F.C.
Originally "a good distance from Peterhead", the village was extended, by the feuing of two streets, by James Ferguson, the third Laird of Pitfour, in 1796.
Harbour Buchanhaven houses a small harbour with several boats. The harbour is owned by the Feuars Managers, but it is under the control of the Buchanhaven Harbour Trust.
The pier was built in the 19th century; it replaced a smaller, earlier pier built a few hundreds yards to the north. A diesel cable winch is situated at the top of the pier for the purpose of hauling boats from the slipway to the shore and vice versa.
Fishing The Annual Reports of the Fishery Board for Scotland provide an insight into fishing in Buchanhaven in the years before the First World War. For example, in the Report for 1900, we learn that "Only a few old men occasionally fish from this creek. The regular fishermen landing all their fish at Peterhead".
Notable people
Peter Buchan (1917–1991), poet, lived at 5 Harbour Street
References
External links
British History Online Buchanhaven Community Action Plan 2012 - contains historical information