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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Evie Townend

Entire village was swallowed by sand overnight leaving just the church still standing

At the tip of the great sea-splitting knuckle of north-east Scotland sits a ruin that tells the story of an old village’s turbulent and windswept past.

Once a bustling Royal Burgh in Aberdeenshire, the hamlet of Rattray never recovered from a disastrous storm in the 18th century.

Swallowing the village in shifting sands, the dwellings, community and fishing industry were destroyed forever.

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