It lies 7 miles (11 km) west of Fraserburgh.
[2] The harled parish church dates to 1818, designed by John Smith.
It reuses the 1771 bellcote from the church of St Drostan in Aberdour.
[1] During World War II, a German Heinkel He 115 crashed near a farm on Windyheads Hill.
The story is documented in a 2018 book, North East Scotland at War: Events and Facts 1939–1945,[3] 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.