[3] The oldest houses in the village run alongside the main road with a modern estate to the west side.

When standing with a clear view of the surrounding countryside the masts at the nearby Crimond Aerodrome to the east may be seen as are the telecommunications satellite receivers on Mormond Hill to the North West.

There are remains of an old camp where the workers who built the St Fergus Gas Terminal lived whilst it was being constructed to the east of the village.

In the summer of 1297 after capturing Aberdeen, William Wallace and his army travelled through Crimond as they marched to meet another Scottish commander Andrew Moray at a stronghold on the banks of the River Spey.

After the war the base was closed and subsequently was used as a Royal Naval Wireless Station providing long range radio services.

The opening meeting in 1966 featured John "Moon Eyes" Cooper competing on solos against double Manx GP winner George Buchan and sidecar aces Chris Vincent and Mac Hobson..

However the Ministry of Defence reclaimed the land to build radio masts and so the track was moved three times before settling for its current situation in 1973/1974.

The clock mechanism was repaired in 1948 by Zygmunt Krukowski, a former Polish soldier, who adjusted the frequency of the pendulum by adding and removing penny coins.

The church has a wind vane in the shape of a fish that was lost around the time of World War Two and only found in the 1990s, when it was placed back on top of the spire.