HISTORY

Findhorn is a village along the Moray coast. It is located near the end of a small peninsula on the eastern shore of Findhorn Bay and the south shore of the Moray Firth, about 5 miles (9km) north of Forres.

The existing settlement is the second village to bear this name, the original having been a mile to the northwest of the present position and inundated by the sea. This transposition was not an overnight catastrophe but a gradual withdrawal from the earlier site during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Some sources claim it is the third village to bear the name, perhaps assuming that the seventeenth century destruction of the nearby Barony of Culbin? by shifting sands resulted in an earlier relocation.

The Crown and Anchor Inn, dating from 1739, is one of the oldest surviving structures in the village. Other prominent buildings of note include Findhorn House built in 1775, which is the home of the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club, The Kimberley Inn, the James Milne Institute (founded in 1921, formerly a warehouse belonging to said James Milne) The Universal Hall at the Findhorn Foundation and the Ice House Heritage Centre?.

The Findhorn Foundation? and the associated ecovillage are located to the south of the village.