Fetteresso Castle, Stonehaven

Name: Fetteresso Castle
Address: Stonehaven, United Kingdom

#5 among attractions in Stonehaven

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Fetteresso Castle is a 14th-century tower house, rebuilt in 1761 as a Scottish Gothic style Palladian manor, with clear evidence of prehistoric use of the site. It is situated immediately west of the town of Stonehaven in Kincardineshire, slightly to the west of the A90 dual carriageway. Other notable historic fortified houses or castles in this region are Dunnottar Castle, Muchalls Castle, Fiddes Castle, Cowie Castle and Monboddo House. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 56°57'37"N, 2°15'37"W

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Stonehaven United Kingdom

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Fetteresso Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Stonehaven Tolbooth, Doonie Point.

2.6 miE
Ruins of 13th-century clifftop fortress
Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven
66 min walk • Dunnottar Castle is a dramatic and evocative ruin perched on a giant rocky outcrop on the edge of the North Sea. Located near the coastal town of Stonehaven in Scotland, this fortress holds a place of great significance in the history of Scotland.
2.2 miE
Water park, Amusement park, Sport venue
Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Stonehaven
57 min walk • Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool, Queen Elizabeth Park, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, is an Olympic sized heated open air public pool opened in 1934. It is the northernmost lido in the UK.
2.2 miE
Specialty museum, Museum
Stonehaven Tolbooth, Stonehaven
56 min walk • The Stonehaven Tolbooth is a late 16th-century stone building originally used as a courthouse and a prison in the town of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
5 miNE
Climbing
Doonie Point
129 min walk • Doonie Point is a rocky headland situated approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the village of Muchalls in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The clifftop of Doonie Point yields views to the north of Grim Brigs, Brown Jewel and the coast of Newtonhill.
2.8 miNE
Ruins
Cowie Chapel, Stonehaven
72 min walk • The Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan is a ruined chapel overlooking the North Sea immediately north of Stonehaven, in the Mearns of Scotland, along the northern shoreline of Stonehaven Bay.
5.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cairn Mon Earn
140 min walk • Cairn Mon Earn or Cairn-mon-earn is a hill in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
5 miNE
Forts and castles
Muchalls Castle
127 min walk • Muchalls Castle stands overlooking the North Sea in the countryside of Kincardine and Mearns, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The lower course is a well-preserved Romanesque, double-groined 13th-century tower house structure, built by the Frasers of Muchalls.
2.7 miNE
Forts and castles
Cowie Castle
70 min walk • Cowie Castle is a ruined fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The site lies at the northern end of Stonehaven on the North Sea coast. To the immediate south is the Cowie Bridge crossing of the Cowie Water. Evidence of prehistoric man exists in the vicinity dating to the Iron Age in the form of ring cairns.
1.3 miE
Church
Dunnottar Parish Church, Stonehaven
33 min walk • Dunnottar Parish Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, serving Stonehaven in the south of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Kincardine and Deeside. During 2020, the congregation united to the South Parish Church in Stonehaven to form Carronside Church of Scotland.
3.5 miN
Stela
Lang Stane of Auquhollie
90 min walk • The Lang Stane of Auquhollie is an Ogam-inscribed standing stone some 6 kilometres north-west of Stonehaven in Scotland. Situated on south side of Meikle Carew Hill at a height of about 140 metres above sea level, the stone is approximately 3 metres in height and 0.75 metres in diameter, an unshaped monolith of gneiss.
5.2 miN
Church
Cookney Church
134 min walk • Cookney Parish Church, now business premises within a converted listed building, was a Christian place of worship in the village of Cookney, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.