Craster Harbour

For centuries, fishermen from Craster pulled their boats up onto the shore of 'Craster Haven', which provided some natural protection. The harbour seen today was built in 1906 as a memorial by the Craster family of Craster Tower. The harbour is partly formed from an old whinstone quarry.[1] It has a distinctive concrete rectangle on the south harbour wall, which is a favourite with tourists for 'framing' photos of nearby Dunstanburgh Castle. This was a base for supports for an areal ropeway used for transporting stone to the harbour from a second quarry at the west of the village (now used as the public car park).

Craster Memorial Harbour. Constructed in memory of Capt. Charles Pulleine Craster, 46th Punjabis, who fell in action during the Thibetan Expedition, June 1904. He took a deep interest in the provision of a harbour at Craster. His brothers and sister chose this way of perpetuating his memory. AD 1906.

Plaque on the harbour wall