B9019

This article is about the recently defunct B9019 in Portsoy.
For the original B9019 from Buckie to Portknockie, now A942, see B9019 (Buckie - Portknockie).

Portsoy New Harbour, seen from the northern end of the B9019

The B9019 was a short link road in the Banffshire coastal town of Portsoy. The road was originally unclassified but had gained its number by 1936. By the early 2000s the route was no longer signposted, and only the OS seemed to still mark it as a B road. However, it was not until 2017 that it was officially downgraded to become a C road.

The road connected the main A98 to the burgh's New Harbour. It started by heading north along Church Street, then doglegging east along Institute Street onto Schoolhendry Street, although old maps suggest that the road stopped short of the harbour itself, perhaps at the entrance to an old yard owned by the port authority, and now partially redeveloped. This is supported by the council's review document which formalised the downgrading, which shows that the route stopped at the end of Schoolhendry Street, with Shore Street which continues to the harbour itself being part of the C109.

Aberdeenshire Council documents show that a 60-metre stretch of Roseacre Street (leading to the site of the former Portsoy railway station, south of the A98) was also considered to be part of the B9019. This could suggest that the B9019 once used Shillinghill in favour of Church Street. However, neither road is indicated as such on any old map, nor signposted.