🗺️ NC500 Attractions

Whaligoe Steps are one of the most extraordinary and undervisited places on the entire NC500 — a staircase of 330 flagstone steps cut vertiginously into the face of a 70-metre cliff above a tiny natural harbour used by herring fishermen from the 18th century. The steps were cut to allow the herring fisherwomen (the "gutting girls") to carry their heavy baskets of fish up the cl…