[1] On the coast is Cairnbulg Point, flanking the eastern side of Fraserburgh Bay.

[1] Mormond Hill (769 feet (234 m)) sits on the borders of Rathen, Strichen and Lonmay.

[1] In 1328, Robert the Bruce, a year before his death, granted it to the college and canons of Old Machar.

[1] A sundial was added in the kirkyard in 1625,[2] and the church's nave was erected by the Frasers of Memsie in 1646.

[2] The church was replaced in 1868 by a new construction, designed by William Smith,[2] to the east of its predecessor.