Pennan in Summer

The small village of Pennan is seen nestled amongst large, imposing red sandstone cliffs. Pennan is situated in the north east of Scotland, in the Grampian region. It consists of a row of small houses and cottages, which are beautifully painted in white and cream. Some are gable end onto the sea which is very traditional architecture of Scottish fishing villages. The village was made famous as one of the locations in the film “Local Hero”. It is surrounded by very large imposing cliffs, which have caused serious landslides in 2007 and 2009. The cliffs consist of early Devonian old red sandstone which is part of the Pennan Sandstone Formation, with a base of siltstones and sandstones (the Gamrie Bay Sandstone) which are un-conformably overlain by middle Devonian conglomerates (part of the Gardenstone conglomerate, of the Inverness Group).