Cullen Bay Holiday Park The Royal Burgh of Cullen |
Cullen Bay Holiday Park has outstanding views out over the North Sea and is only
a ten minute walk from the centre of the Royal Burgh of Cullen.
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The small harbour, begun in 1817 and once busy with the herring fishing, is now mainly
used by pleasure craft. |
The most striking feature of the town is the series of railway viaducts, one of the
great achievements of |
nineteenth-century railway engineering, which divide the seatown from the upper town.
They were completed in 1886 by the Great North of Scotland Railway. |
The Cullen Coat of Arms |
The Railway Viaduct |
The Moray Firth between Cullen and Findhorn is home to one of only two resident populations
of bottle-nosed dolphins in Britain. |
Cullen is renowned for both the beauty of its setting and its rich history.
Fishing has been carried on at Cullen for at least five hundred years. |
The village specialised in the export of smoked haddock and had at one time three
large curing houses. The local delicacy Cullen Skink, is a delicious fish soup
of smoked haddock, potatoes, onions and milk. |
Cullen's long-standing popularity with holidaymakers is based on its fine long sandy
beach, which is one of only seven |
beaches in Scotland never to have failed the European Community test of bathing waters. |
There are estimated to be about 129 although many young have been seen. On a sunny
summer day, walkers on the cliff tops can be almost sure to see a group of dolphins
leaping and playing, sometimes quite near to the shore. |
