Stirling Village – Boddam Harbour - loop in Boddam
The B9108 is a short Class II road serving the coastal village of Boddam in east Aberdeenshire. In shape the road resembles a letter P tilted 45° to the right, and it is the most easterly B class road in mainland Scotland. (Shetland is farther east.)
Queens Road, looking down Russel Street to Gordon Street
The route starts on the main A90Aberdeen to Peterhead road at Stirling Village, from where the "main stem" of the P runs for a little over 700m northeastward along the straight Station Road and Seaview Road to Boddam Harbour. The route then bears right onto a loop, which runs via Harbour Street, Queen's Road, and Manse Terrace back to the middle of the first section of the route, at the point where Station Road becomes Seaview Road.
History
It was originally unclassified but had gained its number by 1932, but owing to the limitation of small-scale mapping it is not known if the B9108 had its present shape from the outset, although the loop had definitely been closed by 1950. What is known is that the route originally followed the straight Gordon Street, rather than Queens Road to turn around the loop of the 'P'. This is shown on mapping from the 1950s and 1960s, but has since been changed.
Some maps show a disconnected spur of the B9108 following part of Rocksley Drive from the A90. This appears to be an error, with no other evidence to support it.
