Ice House
Introduction
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Ice House
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 26 Sep 2008
This building doesn't look like a typical icehouse, but it is shown on the second edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, surveyed in 1903. It's not on the first edition so must have been built after that map was surveyed in 1867. Ice houses were built to store ice gathered in winter for packing fish to send to markets in the south, no doubt from the station which was only a couple of hundred yards away. The path in front of the disused building is the eastward extension of the Speyside Way, linking Spey Bay with Buckie. The distant hill is the Bin at Garmouth.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.67259
Longitude
-2.992471