Crovie - A Village on the Edge
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Stewart talks to poet Anne Wiseman about Crovie's past and its fragile future.
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| 0:53.7 | Now, there are many beautiful historic villages dotted around the country and Crivy in Aberdeenshire is perhaps one of the more unusual. It comprises little more than a handful of colourful cottages and they're built on this really narrow strip between the cliffs and the |
| 1:12.9 | sea and the sea is so close it feels like you could actually touch it from the front door |
| 1:19.1 | now there's no shop no pub no road yet there is this really strong sense of community in |
| 1:27.2 | krivy |
| 1:27.6 | and that gives the place a real identity. |
| 1:30.9 | I met up with local resident Anne Weisman and she's an author and artist |
| 1:35.7 | and she's just written a book of poems all about the history of this tiny village |
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