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Portknockie Harbour, Moray Firth
Harbour (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Portknockie Harbour, Moray Firth
Classification Harbour (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Portnockie Harbour; Portknockie Hythe; North Sea
Canmore ID 17399
Site Number NJ46NE 24
NGR NJ 4870 6865
NGR Description Centred NJ 4870 6865
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17399
- Council Moray
- Parish Rathven
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
NJ46NE 24.00 centred 4870 6865
Portknockie Hythe [NAT] (at NJ 4858 6863)
Breakwater [NAT] (at NJ 4862 6871)
Piers [NAT] (at NJ 4866 6865)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.
NJ46NE 24.01 NJ 48637 68648 Leading Light
NJ46NE 24.02 NJ 4873 6873 Pillbox
NJ46NE 24.03 NJ 48671 68653 Outer Harbour [Stilling Basin]
Location formerly entered as NJ 487 686.
(Location cited as NJ 487 687). Portnockie Harbour, built 1888. A natural harbour, improved by an L-plan pier, two straight piers, and quay walls, forming an outer (stilling) basin and an inner basin. All the works are concrete.
J R Hume 1977.
(NJ 487 687). The existing harbour at Portknockie dates only from the 1880's, and during the period of this study the place was no more than a fishing-village. It was so described, along with Cullen, in 1794 when seven boats were owned there, and in 1847 it still possessed no harbour. As a fishermen's settlement, however, it may go back to the 17th century, as some calculations, admittedly based on uncertain evidence, date the building of the first of the houses to 1677. It is marked on Roy's map of 1747-55. As at Findochty (NJ46NE 25), examples of vernacular building can be seen in some old fishermen's houses beside the harbour.
A Graham 1979, visited 1973.
Air photographs: AAS/97/12/G27/1 and AAS/97/12/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/29.
