New Aberdour
A small 19th century planned village, New Aberdour (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dobhair) lies just south of the Moray Firth Coast, 7 miles (11 km) west of Fraserburgh. One of the earliest churches in Scotland, is said to have been founded here in 580 AD by Saint Drostan and Saint Columba.
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Aberdour Bay, north of New Aberdour, looking east
During World War II, a German Heinkel HE115 crashed near a farm on Windyheads Hill. Local people assisted an injured airman. The facts and events story is documented in a 2018 book "North East Scotland at War - Events and facts 1939-1945" [1] which corrects the belief the aircraft came from Norway and ran out of fuel; it was actually from Germany and it crashed in bad weather.
References
- "Historian seeks info on Heinkel crash". www.fraserburghherald.co.uk.
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