Hopeman
Encyclopedia
Hopeman is a seaside village
in Moray
, Scotland
, on the coast of the Moray Firth
, founded in 1805 to house and re-employ people displaced during the Highland clearances
. The population is around 1 000 people in approximately 670 households.
The old part of Hopeman has a grid-iron street layout. The main part of the village is set back from the beach and there is a village green
with playing fields, a playground
and a skate park). The B9012 passes west to east to the south of the village.
The main street, Harbour Street, runs north to south from the harbour to its junction with the B9012. Shops and commercial establishments in Hopeman: Costcutters, a general store; Seahorse, a gift shop; a hairdressers and beauty salon; the butcher
's; the Primrose Cafe; the Station Hotel; the chemists; the post office; a fish and chip shop and a Chinese carryout. Down at the harbour are Footprints, a gallery and shop and Harbour blooms, a flower shop.
Hopeman Lodge, the largest house in Hopeman, occupies a commanding position on the east side of the village. It was once used by nearby Gordonstoun
school as a boarding house but now provides holiday flats for rent. Hopeman Golf Course
is to the east of the Lodge.
Phayrelands, is to the West of the village on the main road towards Cummingston
.
y beach
es split by the man-made harbour. The West Beach is the smaller. The East Beach is surrounded by large, grassy sand dunes, and has colourful beach hut
s and large rocky areas with excellent rockpools (the one at the eastern edge is known as Daisy Rock). Just to the east of it is a far smaller hidden beach made up of stone
s and large rock formations rather than sand. There are quite a few birds to be found on the beach, such as the herring gull, the great black-backed gull
, the black-headed gull
, the curlew
and the oystercatcher
. The areas of gorse
heathland surrounding the eastern beaches are home to the whitethroat
, the robin
and the yellowhammer
. Now and then bottlenose dolphin
s turn up in the Moray Firth
off the coast of Hopeman, from where they can easily be seen. Hopeman Harbour is in the middle of East Beach and West Beach. It is small and now mainly houses pleasure vessels. In the past it was operational for landing fish caught by fisherman from the village.
The harbour is home to the Gordonstoun
seamanship department and, whilst the school's yacht is berthed elsewhere, the smaller craft used for sail-training are berthed in the harbour.
The marina in the harbour was installed by Moray Council in 2009.
and Cummingston
. There are nine classes in the school. It is split into three houses, Duff, Cameron and Gordon, for an inter-house competition in summer.
Gordonstoun
School is but a few miles away and provides an all-round education based upon the principals of its founder Kurt Hahn.
presenter Fiona Bruce
traced her family back to the Bruces of Hopeman during an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? in February 2009.
The Old Salt House featured in an episode of the television show Home or Away in 2009.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in Moray
Moray
Moray is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.- History :...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, on the coast of the Moray Firth
Moray Firth
The Moray Firth is a roughly triangular inlet of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of north of Scotland...
, founded in 1805 to house and re-employ people displaced during the Highland clearances
Highland Clearances
The Highland Clearances were forced displacements of the population of the Scottish Highlands during the 18th and 19th centuries. They led to mass emigration to the sea coast, the Scottish Lowlands, and the North American colonies...
. The population is around 1 000 people in approximately 670 households.
The village
The village was founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century as a fishing port by William Young of Inverugie. It expanded when the new harbour was built in 1838 for the export of stone from the nearby quarries.The old part of Hopeman has a grid-iron street layout. The main part of the village is set back from the beach and there is a village green
Village green
A village green is a common open area which is a part of a settlement. Traditionally, such an area was often common grass land at the centre of a small agricultural settlement, used for grazing and sometimes for community events...
with playing fields, a playground
Playground
A playground or play area is a place with a specific design for children be able to play there. It may be indoors but is typically outdoors...
and a skate park). The B9012 passes west to east to the south of the village.
The main street, Harbour Street, runs north to south from the harbour to its junction with the B9012. Shops and commercial establishments in Hopeman: Costcutters, a general store; Seahorse, a gift shop; a hairdressers and beauty salon; the butcher
Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat or any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat, poultry, fish and shellfish for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments...
's; the Primrose Cafe; the Station Hotel; the chemists; the post office; a fish and chip shop and a Chinese carryout. Down at the harbour are Footprints, a gallery and shop and Harbour blooms, a flower shop.
Hopeman Lodge, the largest house in Hopeman, occupies a commanding position on the east side of the village. It was once used by nearby Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun School is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils in Moray in North East Scotland. Named after the estate originally owned by Sir Robert Gordon in the 1600s, the school now uses this estate as its campus...
school as a boarding house but now provides holiday flats for rent. Hopeman Golf Course
Golf course
A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...
is to the east of the Lodge.
Phayrelands, is to the West of the village on the main road towards Cummingston
Cummingston
Cummingston is located on the North East coast of Scotland in Moray. It lies on the B9012, sandwiched between the two fishing villages of Hopeman and Burghead...
.
Beaches and harbour
Hopeman has two large sandSand
Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.The composition of sand is highly variable, depending on the local rock sources and conditions, but the most common constituent of sand in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal...
y beach
Beach
A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...
es split by the man-made harbour. The West Beach is the smaller. The East Beach is surrounded by large, grassy sand dunes, and has colourful beach hut
Beach hut
A beach hut is a small, usually wooden and often brightly coloured, box above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches. They are generally used as a shelter from the sun or wind, changing into and out of swimming costumes and for the safe storing of some personal belongings...
s and large rocky areas with excellent rockpools (the one at the eastern edge is known as Daisy Rock). Just to the east of it is a far smaller hidden beach made up of stone
Rock (geology)
In geology, rock or stone is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. In general rocks are of three types, namely, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic...
s and large rock formations rather than sand. There are quite a few birds to be found on the beach, such as the herring gull, the great black-backed gull
Great Black-backed Gull
The Great Black-backed Gull is the largest gull in the world, which breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic...
, the black-headed gull
Black-headed Gull
The Black-headed Gull is a small gull which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory, wintering further south, but some birds in the milder westernmost areas of Europe are resident...
, the curlew
Curlew
The curlews , genus Numenius, are a group of eight species of birds, characterised by long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage. They are one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills...
and the oystercatcher
Oystercatcher
The oystercatchers are a group of waders; they form the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the polar regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia...
. The areas of gorse
Gorse
Gorse, furze, furse or whin is a genus of about 20 plant species of thorny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia.Gorse is closely related to the brooms, and like them, has green...
heathland surrounding the eastern beaches are home to the whitethroat
Whitethroat
The Common Whitethroat, Sylvia communis, is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds throughout Europe and across much of temperate western Asia. This small passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in tropical Africa, Arabia and Pakistan.This is one of several Sylvia species...
, the robin
European Robin
The European Robin , most commonly known in Anglophone Europe simply as the Robin, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family , but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher...
and the yellowhammer
Yellowhammer
The Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is common in all sorts of open areas with some scrub or trees and form small flocks in winter....
. Now and then bottlenose dolphin
Bottlenose Dolphin
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. Recent molecular studies show the genus contains two species, the common bottlenose dolphin and the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin , instead of one...
s turn up in the Moray Firth
Moray Firth
The Moray Firth is a roughly triangular inlet of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of north of Scotland...
off the coast of Hopeman, from where they can easily be seen. Hopeman Harbour is in the middle of East Beach and West Beach. It is small and now mainly houses pleasure vessels. In the past it was operational for landing fish caught by fisherman from the village.
The harbour is home to the Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun School is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils in Moray in North East Scotland. Named after the estate originally owned by Sir Robert Gordon in the 1600s, the school now uses this estate as its campus...
seamanship department and, whilst the school's yacht is berthed elsewhere, the smaller craft used for sail-training are berthed in the harbour.
The marina in the harbour was installed by Moray Council in 2009.
Education
Hopeman Primary School is on the East side of the village and has around 250 Pupils. The catchment area includes Hopeman and the nearby villages of DuffusDuffus
Duffus is a village in Moray, Scotland, centred on a Mercat Cross. The Duffus Village Inn, along with the local shop, Post Office and Duffus Village Hall provide a focal point for the community. Nearby are the impressive remains of Duffus Castle, St...
and Cummingston
Cummingston
Cummingston is located on the North East coast of Scotland in Moray. It lies on the B9012, sandwiched between the two fishing villages of Hopeman and Burghead...
. There are nine classes in the school. It is split into three houses, Duff, Cameron and Gordon, for an inter-house competition in summer.
Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun School is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils in Moray in North East Scotland. Named after the estate originally owned by Sir Robert Gordon in the 1600s, the school now uses this estate as its campus...
School is but a few miles away and provides an all-round education based upon the principals of its founder Kurt Hahn.
Trivia
BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
presenter Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow...
traced her family back to the Bruces of Hopeman during an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? in February 2009.
The Old Salt House featured in an episode of the television show Home or Away in 2009.