Mermaid of the North

She is ten feet tall, green bronze, and she has become the emblem of the Seaboard villages.

The first mermaid was carved in wood and set here in 2007. Five years later a great storm battered her badly, and in 2014 she was replaced by the bronze casting you see now, by the sculptor Steve Hayward. Her rock is called the Clach Dubh, the Black Rock, and at high tide the sea covers her tail, so that she seems to have just come ashore.

She is signposted from the road through the village. Come at high water for the best of her, then walk along the shore path towards Hilton, or up to the Shandwick Stone on the hill.