Boothby Road

Boothby Road is a distributor around the edge of Fraserburgh, forming a de facto bypass and signed as such. There are no direct frontages onto the road.

A Roundabout Feature next to Boothby Road's western entrance to the roundabout with the A981

Beginning at a T-junction with the A98, Boothby Road heads south with a relatively recent housing development on the left hand side (the other side of a pavement and wide verge) and fields on the right. There are a couple of access points to the development and a couple of farm accesses. After bending left, there is a roundabout accessing housing estates on both sides of the road. Climbing a hill, we approach the A981 roundabout with the route the road feels narrower, due to the pavement on both sides and the narrow width of the verges. After the roundabout, the road opens out again, with fields once more on the right hand side of the road, but no pavement on the town side of the road. The verge on the left drops away as we begin to descend back towards the coast, and Boothby Road runs at rooftop level for a short distance, though the fields are the same level as the road. A short way later and the roundabout with the A90 is reached, with Boothby Road ending: straight on being the B9033.

In 1993 and 1994 the Readers Digest Atlas shows Boothby Road as being an unnumbered primary route. To date, no other maps showing Boothby Road as a classified route have been identified, and it seems that this may have been a speculative depiction of the new road as a bypass to Fraserburgh. However, such a bypass is almost completely unnecessary for the town, located as it is in the north east corner of Aberdeenshire.