Peterhead

Peterhead is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is Aberdeenshire's greatest settlement, with a populace of 18,537 at the 2011 Census. Peterhead sits at the easternmost point in territory Scotland. Usually alluded to as The Blue Toun and individuals who were conceived there as Blue Touners. All the more accurately they are called blue mogginers, supposedly from the blue worsted moggins or leggings that the anglers initially wore.

Peterhead was established by anglers and was produced as an arranged settlement. In 1593 the development of Peterhead's first harbor, Port Henry, energized the development of Peterhead as an angling port and set up a base for trade. Peterhead was a Jacobite supporting town in the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745. Specifically, it was one of the Episcopalian north-eastern ports where fortifications, in addition to cash and gear, were occasionally arrived from France amid the 45.

A raft station was first settled in 1865. Since early occasions Peterhead has gotten a segment of its water supply from Morris Wells. Peterhead convict jail was opened in 1888, picking up a notoriety for being one of Scotland's hardest prisons. The present harbor has two enormous jetties, encasing a region of roughly 300 sections of land in Peterhead narrows. The south sea wall, around 2700 ft long, was developed in 1892 1912 utilizing convict work from the jail. The north jetty, developed 1912 56, is roughly 1500 ft long.