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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 773465
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/773465
NJ56NW 40 5130 6720
For (predecessor) Cullen, Old Town, see NJ56NW 8.
For Seatown (centred NJ 5090 6719), see NJ56NW 63.
For market cross, see NJ56NW 9 and NJ56NW 41.
Building of the new planned settlement at Cullen began in 1824 using a plan of c. 1811 that had been modified by Peter Brown of Linkwood; much of the detailed building design was carried out by the Elgin architect William Robertson. The town-plan was further extended in 1825 (with the addition of the York Place/Seafield Road triangle) by the supervisor George MacWilliam from sketches by Robertson.
The focus of the new town (as in other substantial planned towns, such as Fochabers and Grantown) is the great square, enlivened in the case of Cullen by being built on a considerable seawards incline. The finest group of buildings within The Square comprises the old Town Hall, Library, Seafield Hotel and garage; the mercat cross also stands in The Square.
The town is dominated by the railway viaducts NJ56NW 36, NJ56NW 37 and NJ56NW 38. The fishing community of Seatown (NJ56NW 63) lies to the N of the railway.
I A G Shepherd 1986.
