Qualla: Mormond Hill https://qualla.com/mormond-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/x/mormond-hill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mormond Hill https://qualla.com/mormond-hill Mormond Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/mormond-hill/ Photo credit Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0. It is the only hill in Scotland that wears its own livery. A 126-foot white horse made of crushed quartz is laid out on the south-western brow, visible from the village of Strichen and from any aircraft passing over Buchan. A few hundred yards across the hill, a white stag - the only one of its kind anywhere - looks south from a slightly different angle. England has its chalk horses at Uffington and Westbury and several other places, and white horses are common enough across the world. But the stag at Mormond is unique. Captain Alexander Fraser directed the creation of the horse around 1820, with estate tenants laying the quartz figure into the hillside. Some descendant of the Frasers, around 1870, added the stag.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/x/mormond-hill-wp/gfnx-mormond-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mormond Hill: The Captain and the Sergeant https://qualla.com/mormond-hill/ Photo credit Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0. The story behind the white horse is the kind that nineteenth-century antiquarians liked to write down quickly before it could be tidied. In 1794, Captain Alexander Fraser was campaigning with British forces in the Netherlands during the War of the First Coalition - the chaotic ea...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/x/mormond-hill-wp/gfnx-mormond-hill-the-captain-and-the-sergeant.mp3 0:06 2 full Mormond Hill: Scotland's Only Hill Figures https://qualla.com/mormond-hill/ Photo credit Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mormond Hill is, in Gaelic, Mormhonadh - simply the big hill - and from a distance it does not look like much. Two summits, the higher called Waughton Hill, reaching 754 and 767 feet above the surrounding plain. But in the otherwise flat Buchan country, two-and-a-bit hundred metr...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/x/mormond-hill-wp/gfnx-mormond-hill-scotlands-only-hill-figures.mp3 0:06 3 full Mormond Hill: The Resting Cairn and the Hermit https://qualla.com/mormond-hill/ Photo credit Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0. Long before Captain Fraser, the hill was already a landmark in a more sober sense. Before the parish of Strichen was carved out in the seventeenth century, the people of the district had to take their dead north over the brow of Mormond for burial at Rathen Kirk. The pallbearers ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/x/mormond-hill-wp/gfnx-mormond-hill-the-resting-cairn-and-the-hermit.mp3 0:06 4 full Mormond Hill: Cold War Antennas, Folk Songs and a Mention by Judy Collins https://qualla.com/mormond-hill/ Photo credit Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0. An eighteenth-century hunting lodge stands ruinous near the summit. During the Cold War, Mormond Hill Radio Station was built here as part of the North Atlantic Radio System, a chain of microwave relays linking NATO bases across the ocean. The station has since been turned over t...

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