There's a certain picture-book quality about Broadsea with its renovated fishermen's cottages. However, it's unlike most fishing communities in this part of the world. The houses are in a double-sided street whereas most later villages have rows of cottages with their gable-ends to the sea.

The village, 'Braidsea' as we call it, was here before Fraserburgh was built and was the stronghold of the family Noble. They wielded great influence in the village in the seventeenth century and Alexander Fraser, the eleventh Lord Saltoun sought to curry favour with them.

He created the title 'Constable of Broadsea' for the head of the Nobles. There are still members of the Noble family involved in the fishing industry, but no constables now.