Buckie is a burgh town (defined as such in 1888) on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. Historically in Banffshire, Buckie was the largest town in the county by some hundreds of occupants before 1975, when the administrative area was eliminated. The community is the third biggest in the Moray council location after Elgin and Forres as well as within the meanings of stats released by the General Register Office for Scotland was ranked at number 75 in the listing of population price quotes for negotiations in Scotland mid-year 2006. Buckie exists practically equidistant to Banff to the eastern and also Elgin to the west with both areas being roughly 17 miles (27 kilometres) distant whilst Keith lies 12 mi (19 kilometres) to the south by road. Geographically, the community is, extensively speaking, set out in a direct fashion, adhering to the coastline. There is a lower coast area and a top location. Basically Buckie itself is the main part of the area lying between the Victoria Bridge under which flows the Buckie Burn at the western end of West Church Street, the eastern end of Cluny Harbour as well as above the coast location. To the west of Victoria Bridge and also the Buckie Burn is Buckpool, which was formerly known as Nether Buckie, and on the coastline, west of Cluny Harbour, in between Baron Street and the Buckie Burn mouth, there is the Yardie. Instantly over the Yardie on the Buckie side of the shed is the Seatown. To the west of the Yardie is Harbourhead. To the eastern of Cluny Harbour exist Ianstown, Gordonsburgh and also Portessie additionally recognized locally as The Sloch (historically The Rotten Slough), which gets to in the direction of Strathlene. These neighborhoods were, to all intents and also purposes, different angling settlements that gradually merged throughout time. A new community was outlined over the coastline in the 19th century as well as this is the rump of Buckie.
