New Pitsligo

New Pitsligo (Scots: Pitsligae), also known as Cavoch (locally Cyaak), is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, quite near Peterhead.

A small village in the North East of Scotland, it lies about five miles inland from Pennan and around 10 miles south-west of Fraserburgh. It has a baker, chip shop, 2 shops, tandoori restaurant, public library and a doctor's surgery. There are several parks in the village.

The population was recorded as being 907 in 2006.

New Pitsligo is built on Turlundie Hill leading down to the valley between it and Balnamìn Hill. It looks on to Mormond Hill.

Other nearby settlements include Rosehearty to the north-east, Strichen almost due east, Mintlaw to the south-east, New Deer and Maud to the south and New Byth to the west.

The local area to the immediate south is rich with prehistory and historical features. There are found a number of prehistoric monuments including Catto Long Barrow, Silver Cairn and numerous tumuli. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts.

Pitsligo was an area originally owned by the Lords Pitsligo, however after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 these lands were forfeited because of the last Lord's support for the losing side. Part of the estate eventually passed to William Forbes of Monymusk who founded the village of New Pitsligo on the site of the existing hamlet of Cyaak. The boundaries of the original hamlet run roughly from the woods, where the small stream runs through the village, North towards the Fraserburgh end of the village. However now the village as a whole is referred under this name.

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