IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Park Road, BANFF, AB45 2PQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Park Road, AB45 2PQ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (54 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Hoverfly on Hawk....
That is, I think it's a hoverfly, and I think it's a hawkweed rather than a Hawksbeard or Hawkbit, but I do not know which species either is. I think it might be Narrow-leaved Hawkweed (Hieracium umbellatum) but am happy to be corrected.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 15 Aug 2017
0.13 miles
2
Gordon Crescent, Portsoy
Built in the early 1950s as council houses, and since refurbished.
Image: © Peter Barr
Taken: 13 Sep 2011
0.13 miles
3
Site of the Marble Quarry
The faint path on the left leads down to shore where 'Portsoy Marble' used to be quarried. It isn't a marble, but a serpentinite. Marble is metamorphosed limestone (calcium carbonate), while serpentine is a mineral metamorphosed from ocean-floor rocks with a high content of iron, magnesium and other heavy elements. It is typically green in colour, as can be seen in the rock stack, but the Portsoy one often occurs in a dark red. The 'marble' was much used in decorative architecture, and is still worked for jewellery and small ornaments, which are on sale in the Portsoy Marble Shop at the harbour.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 15 Aug 2017
0.13 miles
4
Rodded Quartzite
These rocks have been shaped by forces within the crust of the Earth which have squeezed them, a bit like toothpaste, into elongated shapes termed rods. Pair of walking poles for scale.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 14 Sep 2014
0.15 miles
5
Rodded Quartzite
The cliff left of centre is composed of rodded quartzite. This is sandstone which in the course of metamorphism to quartzite has been squeezed and stretched out into these distinctive upward-pointing rods.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 15 Aug 2017
0.16 miles
6
Campbell Hospital
Campbell Hospital was built in 1902 as an Isolation Hospital on a site gifted by the Countess of Seafield with funds provided by one Mr Campbell of Old Cullen. It stands in spacious and attractive grounds on the outskirts on Portsoy. It has its own sunhouse and patio area. This pavilion was added in two phases in 1924-9 and 1938-9 and is probably the part described as a sun room.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 5 Aug 2010
0.16 miles
7
Cullen Street, Portsoy
Passing Hill Street.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 16 Apr 2015
0.16 miles
8
Rocky cove, Portsoy
Seen from the coastal footpath.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 10 Nov 2010
0.17 miles
9
Incoming Tide
The rocky shore just west of Portsoy.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 27 Mar 2008
0.18 miles
