Buckie ( gd, Bucaidh) is a
burgh
A burgh is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burg ...
town (defined as such in
1888
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) on the
Moray Firth
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coast of
Scotland
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.
Historically
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in
Banffshire
Banffshire ; sco, Coontie o Banffshire; gd, Siorrachd Bhanbh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. The county town is Banff, although the largest settlement is Buckie to the west. It borders the Moray ...
, Buckie was the largest town in the county until the administrative area was abolished in 1975. The town is the third largest in the
Moray
Moray () gd, Moireibh or ') is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.
Between 1975 ...
council area after
Elgin and
Forres
Forres (; gd, Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately northeast of Inverness and west of Elgin. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions. There ...
and within the definitions of statistics published by the
General Register Office for Scotland
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was ranked at number 75 in the list of population estimates for settlements in Scotland mid-year 2006.
Buckie is virtually equidistant to
Banff to the east and Elgin to the west, with both approximately distant whilst
Keith
Keith may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Keith (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters
* Keith (surname)
* Keith (singer), American singer James Keefer (born 1949)
* Baron Keith, a line of Scottish barons ...
lies to the south by road.
Etymology
The origin of the name of the town is not entirely clear. Although the
folk etymology
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is that Buckie is named after a
seashell
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(
genus
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''
buccinum
''Buccinum'' is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marin ...
'') the reality is that the shared marine background is a coincidence. The name Buckie would not have originally identified a place immediately adjacent to the sea, so alternative
etymological
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the form of words and ...
sources are more likely. Unfortunately, in one of the earlier books on Scottish place names, Buckie on the Moray Firth does not receive a mention. However, a Buckie in the
Balquhidder
Balquhidder (; gd, Both Chuidir or ) is a small village in Perthshire located north-west of Callander. It is administered by the Stirling council area of Scotland and is overlooked by the dramatic mountain terrain of the 'Braes of Balquhidde ...
district of
Perthshire
Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, ...
is described as being derived from the
Gaelic
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word ''boc'' or
Welsh
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* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...
''bowk'', both meaning a buck or male deer. This suggests the meaning of Buckie as ''place where male deer gather'', most likely referring to the valley of what is known today as the Buckie Burn.
History
![buckie harbour](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Buckie_harbour.jpg)
A 1936 article by a Dr Cramond
discusses the earliest mention of Buckie dating from 1362, when the lands of ''Rove Bucky in le Awne'' were leased by John Hay to John Young, vicar of
Fordyce. The Hays, from whom the Rannes family were descended, had acquired through Royal favour a footing in the district at a still earlier age when the greater part from the Deveron to the Spey was embraced in the Forest of Awne or Ainie (now Enzie) and the Boyne. Rove Bucky is far from understandable and could be a scribe's error and should perhaps read Over Bucky as occurs in older title deeds, in distinction to Nether Buckie. It has been spelt in different ways,
Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who hav ...
called it Bucky in his poem ''Lady Onlie - Lady Lucky''. This was the form at the end of the 18th century.
Robert Gordon's map ''Aberdeen, Banf, Murrey &c. to Inverness:
ndFra the north water to Ross'',
which is dated at some time between 1636 and 1652, shows Buckie in its own right as a community some small distance from the coast with the community of Freuchny sitting nearer the shore to the north. Robert Gordon and Joan Blaeu's ''Duo Vicecomitatus Aberdonia & Banfia, una cum Regionibus & terrarum tractibus sub iis comprehensis''
published in
Amsterdam
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1654 clearly shows Buckie and Freuchny with the addition of Nether Buckie. James Robertson's ''Topographical and military map of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine'',
London
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, 1822 seems geographically inaccurate in its relative positioning of Buckie, Nether Buckie and Freuchny, but is significant in that the new label of Rotten Slough is given equal importance in terms of size of community with Buckie; however, in ''Thomson’s Atlas of Scotland'',
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
, 1832 Rotten Slough is fairly unimportant by size so one of these two reference publications is distorted, probably the former. This community, which would later come to be known as
Portessie
Portessie ( sco, Peterhythe or The Sloch) is a small fishing village east of Buckie, on the north-east coast of Scotland. It is commonly nicknamed "the Sloch", due to the name of the original settlement being Rottenslough. The village is sandwich ...
, was reportedly formed when "Porteasie.....became a fishing station in 1727, when 5 houses were built by the proprietor of Rannes for the accommodation of the original fishers from
Findhorn
Findhorn ( gd, Inbhir Èir or ''Inbhir Èireann'') is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of Findhorn Bay and immediately south of the Moray Firth. Findhorn is 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Kinloss, and about 5 m ...
" and the 1731 Rathven Session Minutes shows that Rotten Slough already has a population of 40 with ten households and subsequent minutes show the community growing until the 1791 entry records 177 souls in 44 households.
By the time of the publication of the 1891 First Series
Ordnance Survey
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Map of
Elgin,
which reflects the 1866-1870 survey, Buckie has developed markedly with areas named Seatown, Newtown, Ianstown and Portessie. The 19th century OS Six Inch series
further shows Gordonsburgh, Craig Bow and Strathlene. The 1910 OS 3rd Edition one-inch map of Elgin
has settled on the name of Ianstown and all other parts of Buckie are named as they are known today but then, just to confuse the issue, the Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland,
Edinburgh, 1912 uses the label ''Ianston''. The conflicting nomenclature continued with the issue of the 1929 OS One-inch Popular edition
and the 1933 JG Bartholomew & Son, Half-inch to the Mile maps of Scotland.
Layout today
Geographically, the town is, broadly speaking, laid out in a
linear
Linearity is the property of a mathematical relationship (''function'') that can be graphically represented as a straight line. Linearity is closely related to '' proportionality''. Examples in physics include rectilinear motion, the linear r ...
fashion, following the coastline. There is a lower shore area and an upper area. Fundamentally Buckie itself is the central part of the community 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 and above the shore area. To the west of Victoria Bridge and the Buckie Burn is
Buckpool
Buckpool is a village on the coast of Moray, Scotland. Originally known as Nether Buckie, it is now effectively a part of the town of Buckie as the nearby fishing settlements merged as they expanded. Buckpool Harbour was built in 1857 by local la ...
, which was formerly known as Nether Buckie, and on the shoreline, west of Cluny Harbour, between Baron Street and the Buckie Burn mouth, there is the Yardie. Immediately above the Yardie on the Buckie side of the burn is the Seatown. To the west of the Yardie is Harbourhead. To the east of Cluny Harbour lie
Ianstown, Gordonsburgh and
Portessie
Portessie ( sco, Peterhythe or The Sloch) is a small fishing village east of Buckie, on the north-east coast of Scotland. It is commonly nicknamed "the Sloch", due to the name of the original settlement being Rottenslough. The village is sandwich ...
also known locally as ''The Sloch'' (historically ''The Rotten Slough''), which reaches towards
Strathlene
Strathlene is an area between Buckie and Findochty which has a caravan site facing onto the Moray Firth. At one time the Strathlene House Hotel, a former mansion, was a popular local venue with a pleasant beach leading directly off its lawn. There ...
. These communities were, to all intents and purposes, separate fishing settlements that gradually merged over the course of time. A new town was laid out above the shoreline in the 19th century and this is the rump of Buckie.
Population and demography
The
2011 UK Census
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Internet. The Office for National ...
reported that, from Buckie's total population, 88.7% were born in Scotland with the largest single minority being those born in
England
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(7.5%). In terms of declared ethnic allegiance the largest was "White Scottish", at 90.5%.
Source: https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ Scotland's Census, 2011 Census data
Politics
National governments
Buckie is in the
Moray (Westminster) constituency of
the UK Parliament, which returned the Scottish Conservative
Douglas Ross as its
Member of Parliament
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(MP) in 2019, after winning the seat in 2017.
Buckie is in the
Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency of the
Scottish Parliament
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. The seat was represented by SNP MSP
Stewart Stevenson
James Alexander Stewart Stevenson (''Gaelic: Seamus Alasdair Stiùbhart MacSteafain''; born 15 October 1946) is a Scottish politician who served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change from 2007 to 2010 and Minister for En ...
from 2011 until 2021 and by SNP MSP Karen Adam since the Scottish Parliament election of 2021. The constituency is also part of the
North East Scotland electoral region.
Local government
Following the reorganisation of local government in Scotland, Buckie now has 1 multi-member ward with 3 councillors.
Additionally, there is the Buckie Community Council, which allows for 12 members to be elected or co-opted.
Transport
Road
Buckie is situated near the
A98 primary road, which connects
Fraserburgh
Fraserburgh (; sco, The Broch or ; gd, A' Bhruaich) is a town in Aberdeenshire (unitary), Aberdeenshire, Scotland with a population recorded in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census at 13,100. It lies at the far northeast corner of Aber ...
with
Fochabers
Fochabers (; gd, Fachabair or Fothabair) is a village in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, east of the cathedral city of Elgin and located on the east bank of the River Spey. 1,728 people live in the village, which enjoys a rich mus ...
at the junction of the
A96. The A98 runs east–west, approximately parallel with the southern edge of Buckie. The A942 starts at "The Toll Bar" and runs due north from the A98 into Buckie becoming High Street and then North High Street before swinging east as Low Street, along the harbour as Commercial Road and onwards as Rathburn Street, Reidhaven Street and finally Great Eastern Road out of town towards Findochty and Portknockie. Where the A942 swings east, the A990 commences to the west and heads past The Yardie and onwards as Main Street and then Great Western Road towards Portgordon. The nearest railway station is at Keith serving the
Aberdeen-Inverness line. Bus services operate to
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
,
Macduff and
Elgin. There was a connecting service to
Keith railway station
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, which was synchronised with rail times but the service was withdrawn when Moray Council funding ceased in late September 2013. Local bus services are operated by
Stagecoach
A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are draw ...
.
Golden Age of the Railway
Historically, Buckie had extensive rail connections with the rest of
North East Scotland. The
Great North of Scotland Railway
The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the north-east of the country. Formed in 1845, it carried its first passengers the fr ...
was laid out in the 1850s and served the
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
to
Inverness
Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...
route until it was decommissioned in the late 1960s. This construction did not reach the coast until
Nairn
Nairn (; gd, Inbhir Narann) is a town and royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around east of Inverness, at the point where the River Nairn enters the Moray Firth. It is the tradit ...
and various branch lines were built to link the peripheral areas to the mainline service.
![Buckie GNS railway station 1932359](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Buckie_GNS_railway_station_1932359.jpg)
In 1923, GNSR was absorbed into the
London and North Eastern Railway
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...
before that itself was
nationalised
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along with all other
UK rail services into
British Rail
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in 1948.
The
Moray Coast Railway
The Moray Coast Railway was a heavy rail route in Morayshire, Scotland. It was opened in three phases by the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) between 1884 and 1886. The line ran from the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway in Portsoy ...
was also constructed by GNSR and the part of it that served Buckie, opening in 1886, ran from
Cairnie
Cairnie, also written Cairney, ( gd, Càrnaidh/A' Chàrnaich) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It is in the district of Huntly
Huntly ( gd, Srath Bhalgaidh or ''Hunndaidh'') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, formerly known as Mil ...
near
Keith
Keith may refer to:
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* Keith (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters
* Keith (surname)
* Keith (singer), American singer James Keefer (born 1949)
* Baron Keith, a line of Scottish barons ...
down to the coast at
Portsoy
Portsoy ( gd, Port Saoidh) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Historically, Portsoy was in Banffshire. The original name may come from ''Port Saoithe'', meaning "saithe harbour". Portsoy is located on the Moray Firth coast of northeast Scotlan ...
and then swung west through Cullen, Portknockie and Findochty reaching its first stop in Buckie at
Portessie
Portessie ( sco, Peterhythe or The Sloch) is a small fishing village east of Buckie, on the north-east coast of Scotland. It is commonly nicknamed "the Sloch", due to the name of the original settlement being Rottenslough. The village is sandwich ...
. This station was built directly on top of the cliff and commanded panoramic views over the Strathlene House Hotel, Strathlene outdoor swimming pool and beach and onward to the offshore rocks of Craigenroan and the Moray Firth. Indeed, a footpath led from the station down to the hotel and beach area and a visit to Strathlene was a popular day out by train before and during
World War II
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. In 1936 Buckie Town Council proposed to change the name of the station to Strathlene but LNER declined suggesting instead that the Town Council erect their own large sign on Strathlene Golf Course that could be seen from the train.
A retired passenger carriage was available for rent at the station. to the west was
Buckie Station, which was located below the cliff and virtually across the street from Buckie Fish Market. To reach Buckie Station the railway gently descended to the west from the heights of Portessie on an embankment to the foot of the cliff whilst the parallel road lying adjacent to the track on its southern flank rose to the west up the ''McLaren's Brae'' end of East Church Street to the town centre. further west stood
Buckpool Station and from there the line continued due west to Portgordon and onward to
Spey Bay
Spey Bay ( gd, Inbhir Spè) is a small settlement in Moray, Scotland. It is situated at the eastern side of the mouth of the River Spey on the coast of the Moray Firth between the village of Kingston on the western side of the Spey, and the f ...
before crossing the
River Spey
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and swinging inland to rejoin the mainline service at Elgin. Buckie was served by these three railway stations until 1968 when the line was finally closed.
It is possible to walk, or cycle along the route of the old railway from Cullen to
Garmouth
Garmouth ( gd, Geàrr Magh narrow plain" spurious gd, Gairmeach, A' Ghairmich; sco, Gairmou', Garmo), is a village in Moray, north east Scotland. It is situated close to the mouth of the River Spey and the coast of the Moray Firth at nearby ...
. This walk takes in the magnificent Cullen viaduct from which fine views of that town can be had and, at the other end, the Spey Bridge.
![Buckpool rauilway station 1934513 20d1f683](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Buckpool_rauilway_station_1934513_20d1f683.jpg)
Portessie was also terminus to the
Buckie and Portessie Branch
The Buckie and Portessie Branch was a railway branch line in Scotland, built by the Highland Railway to serve an important fishing harbour at Buckie, in Banffshire. It connected with the rival Great North of Scotland Railway at Portessie.
The ...
of the
Highland Railway
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.
This line was opened in 1884 and provided a direct rail link "up the hill" to Keith. The line ran westwards from Portessie but remained on top of the cliff, passing the Pot O' Linn, skirting the rear of Cliff Terrace and crossing Harbour Street then swinging south contributing to the curve of Mill Crescent to stop at
Buckie Highland Station before continuing up present day Millbank Terrace towards Rathven. Until recent years this latter section was used as a footpath and commonly known as "The Highland Line" – it was quite possible to cycle from Millbank Terrace to the site of Rathven Station as late as the 1970s and even early 1980s – but housing development and farming interests have contributed to the virtual closure of this popular route to Peter Fair Park. The line passed under a road bridge of what is now the A98, which has long since been demolished, and then turned westwards again towards Drybridge and made another sweep to the south as it passed Enzie and then headed uphill, over the Enzie Braes, to Aultmore and on to Keith. This link was relatively short-lived and was closed in 1915 except for a freight service between Buckie and Portessie, which was closed in 1944.
As a port
Cluny Harbour has long been the industrial centre of Buckie. This port was built by the Cluny family in 1877 to replace the town's first stone harbour in Nether Buckie, which was constructed in 1857 or so to the west but had a tendency to silt up and become unusable.
The Laird of Letterfourie had contributed £5,000 of the construction costs at Nether Buckie but the main investor with the balance of £10,000 was the Board of Fisheries. The engineers were D.& T. Stevenson of Edinburgh, the family firm of the author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...
. It was and remains a very sturdily built edifice with the main walls of considerable thickness being built of
quartzite
Quartzite is a hard, non- foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.Essentials of Geology, 3rd Edition, Stephen Marshak, p 182 Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure usually related to tect ...
, quarried locally at Strathlene, capped with a very hard type of sandstone, which was also used to form the walls at the entrance and of the harbour proper. As regards stability the harbour has remained a monument to engineering science with very little maintenance ever being necessary. It had a design fault, however, in that the entrance opened to the north east and was subject to infill with shingle, moving westwards by
longshore drift
Longshore drift from longshore current is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments (clay, silt, pebbles, sand, shingle) along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on the angle incoming wave direction ...
. Later known as Buckpool Harbour, this earlier port became something of an eyesore and eventually the silted basin became overgrown and dangerously swampy. The decision was taken to fill in the basin and this work was undertaken in the 1970s. The resulting park includes a pebble beach and the original quartzite harbour walls remain completely intact.
Industry
Once a thriving
fishing
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and
shipbuilding
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port, these industries have declined. Though Peterhead and Aberdeen are now more often associated with the
fishing industry
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in northeast Scotland, in 1913 Buckie had the largest steam drifter fleet in Scotland.
Food processing remains important, with large fish factories and smoke houses found around the harbour. Buckie can properly be regarded as one of the main points of origin of the modern Scottish
shellfish
Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Although most kinds of shellfish are harvested from saltwater envir ...
industry.
A
Mancunian, Charles Eckersley, who moved to Buckie in the 1950s and started trading as a fish merchant, noticed that many of the varieties of shellfish that were regarded as economically useless by Buckie fishing vessels (
prawns
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The term "prawn"Mortenson, Philip B (2010''This is not a weasel: a close look at nature ...
,
scallops
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etc.) were in fact the same species that he had enjoyed whilst completing his
National Service
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The l ...
in
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. He seized the opportunity to exploit this gap in the market and he built a thriving processing and packing business, which eventually expanded to include factories as far afield as
Barcelona
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and
Alicante
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in
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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The
Buckie Shipyard now repairs and refits
RNLI
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lifeboats for much of the
United Kingdom
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and operates service contracts for various other clients including the
MoD
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as well as building new vessels but boatbuilding was a major industry in the town for decades. Until recent years there were three quite separate boatyards building traditional wooden
clinker
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*Clinker (boat building), construction method for wooden boats
*Clinker (waste), waste from industrial processes
*Clinker (cement), a kilned then quenched cement product
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fishing vessels. Leaving Cluny Square and heading down North High Street, also locally known as the ''Bowling Green Brae'', the view of the sea would have been interrupted by a huge grey corrugated iron shed. This was Thomsons and vessels were launched directly into the Moray Firth from a slipway. Heading east to Cluny Harbour it would have been impossible to miss Herd and Mackenzie on the fourth or ''lifeboat'' basin of the harbour. Directly behind their large sheds and across Blantyre Terrace was Jones with their private harbour into which they launched their vessels. Thomsons is gone but the premises of Herd and McKenzie and Jones are part of the modern day Buckie Shipyard. It was Herd and McKenzie, a firm with its roots in
Dunbartonshire
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from where Messrs Herd and Mackenzie sortied north, which built and launched the training
schooner
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''
Captain Scott
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'' in 1972. At the time of its launch, this vessel was the largest of its type in the world. In earlier years, there were further boat construction operations dotted along the shoreline from The Yardie to Ianstown and on to Portessie but these had mostly been amalgamated into the three main firms or had gone out of business by the
interwar period
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.
A significant part of the population works in the offshore
oil
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industry although Buckie somewhat missed the boat with the
North Sea
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boom. In the late 1970s, there were extensive plans drawn up to extend Cluny Harbour out to the Mucks
reef
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with the intention of serving oilfield supply vessels. Nothing came of this but every now and then the idea rears its head once more to be met with great enthusiasm before failing to get off the ground again.
Buckie was home to a specialist electric lamp factory of
Thorn EMI
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until 1987
when it was closed and production moved to a new plant in
Leicestershire
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. All of the predominantly female staff were offered jobs at the new facility in the
East Midlands
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but, as the vast majority of the labour force were second wage earners in families, this offer was almost universally rejected.
Buckie is home to the Inchgower Distillery,
which sits or so inland from the town and is best known for the
Inchgower Single Malt.
Religion
![Buckpool](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Buckpool.JPG)
As a traditional fishing community, Buckie has always had an active religious life, and thus has numerous churches representing almost every branch of Northern European
Christianity
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. The largest church is
St. Peter's, which stands on St. Andrews Square in Buckpool. This twin-spired red sandstone construction was originally planned to act as the cathedral for the
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
Diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
of Aberdeen when it was opened in 1857.
This never came to pass and Buckie was left with what is arguably one of the grandest churches in NE Scotland outside of Aberdeen. The basis of this reasoning was that the Roman Catholic population per capita in the area around Buckie was one of the highest in post-
Reformation
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
Scotland.
St. Gregory's, built at Preshome near Buckie in 1788, was the first post-Reformation church to be built in Scotland that looked like a church – prior to that date post-Reformation Roman Catholics worshiped in
clandestine churches designed to look anonymous. These sometimes resembled farm buildings or ordinary houses, a superbly preserved example of this is
St. Ninian's (1775) at Tynet about to the west of Buckie, which looks like a long, low barn.
[Kaplan, Benjamin J., ''Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe,'' Harvard University Press, 2007, Chapter 8, pp. 198. ff..]
![St Peter's Church - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/St_Peter%27s_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_223361.jpg)
The largest
Church of Scotland
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The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t ...
congregation in the town worships in the North Church in Cluny Square. This building houses the town clock and was opened in 1879.
There are other Church of Scotland congregations in addition to
Methodist
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,
Salvation Army
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,
Episcopal
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*Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese
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,
Baptist
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,
Gospel Hall Brethren
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and other congregational churches.
Schools
Buckie High School
Buckie High School is a mixed secondary school in Buckie, Moray, Scotland which has a roll of around 900 pupils in years S1 to S6. The school serves the coastal communities of Portgordon, Buckie, Portessie, Findochty, Portknockie and Cullen.
His ...
is located on West Cathcart Street. Directly opposite from the original and still functioning old building of the school is Cluny Primary School (Buckie Primary School until 1974.) Examination results are in line with those of young people with similar needs and backgrounds in other schools across Scotland.
There are three further primary schools in the town - Millbank Primary School on McWilliam Crescent in the newer mid-southern part of Buckie, St. Peter's RC Primary School in Buckpool and Portessie Primary School. Additional primary schools in
Portgordon
Portgordon, or sometimes Port Gordon, ( gd, Port Ghòrdain) is a village in Moray, Scotland, south-west of Buckie. It was established in 1797 by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon as a fishing village. It had a population of 844 at the time ...
,
Findochty
Findochty (pronounced , sco, Finichty, gd, Am Fionn Ochdamh) is a village in Moray, Scotland, on the shores of the Moray Firth; historically it was part of Banffshire. The Gaelic name of the village was recorded by Diack using his own transcri ...
,
Portknockie
Portknockie ( gd, Port Chnocaidh, the hilly port) is a coastal village on the Moray Firth within Moray, Scotland.
The village's name is written as Portknockies in the Old Parish Registers. This would suggest that the port's name referred to not ...
and
Cullen contribute to the roll of Buckie High School. The small communities of
Arradoul
Arradoul is a small village in Scotland, in the traditional county of Banffshire, and in the Moray council area. It is a ribbon settlement on the south side of main A98 road between Cullen and Fochabers, near to the Buckpool turn off to the tow ...
, Drybridge,
Rathven
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and Lintmill, none of which support their own schools any longer, also contribute to the BHS roll along with the families of the many farms scattered locally. The adjoining school areas are
Banff, Keith and
Fochabers
Fochabers (; gd, Fachabair or Fothabair) is a village in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, east of the cathedral city of Elgin and located on the east bank of the River Spey. 1,728 people live in the village, which enjoys a rich mus ...
.
Leisure
Like other towns in the area, Buckie is well served by golf courses, with clubs at the eastern and western peripheries. To the eastern extremity with a spectacular clifftop location lies
Strathlene Golf Course
Strathlene at Findochty, near Buckie, is one of the oldest golf courses in Scotland. It was established in 1877 and is home to Strathlene Buckie Golf Clu The ground was given to the town by Mr Bryson the factor of Seafield Estates at that time. Th ...
, which stretches almost all the way to the village of Findochty; while to the west, also on a clifftop, lies
Buckpool Golf Club
Buckpool Golf Club is located in Buckie, Moray on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. This 18 hole course is set out on a clifftop location at the extreme western end of Buckpool. UK Golf Guide describes it as a ''links course with superlative view ...
, which reaches towards the village of Portgordon.
Adjacent to Buckie High School is
Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to:
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, home of
Buckie Thistle Football Club. Although ''The Jags'' had been consistently high finishers in the
Highland Football League
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The Scottish football league syst ...
, the league title had eluded the club since 1958. The long wait ended on 1 May 2010 when an away win at
Wick Academy F.C.
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sealed a first championship in 52 years. The championship was retained in May 2011 by a 2–1 victory over nearest rivals
Deveronvale
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in the last match of the season, with Buckie scoring the winner in the final minute. The 1950s was a decade when all trophies available were regularly won. During this era Buckie Thistle travelled to
Hampden Park
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to meet Queen's Park in a Scottish Cup 4th round replay on 30 October 1954, winning 2–1,
becoming the first and, to this day, only senior non-league club to have won a competitive match at the national stadium. The board has developed the stadium in recent years, adding a function hall within the ground so that sponsors and match-goers can enjoy licensed and catering facilities pre- and post-match.
In Buckpool, next door to Buckpool Golf Club, is the Merson Park home of
Buckie Rovers Football Club. ''The Rovers'' are members of the
Scottish Junior Football Association
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and play in that body's
North First Division (East). At one time they played at Victoria Park, alternating home fixtures with their senior cousins but when Buckie Thistle were suffering an episode of extreme financial distress the decision was taken to move to a new facility at the municipal Merson Park. The Merson Park ground has only a perimeter fence and dugouts differentiating it from a municipal pitch and there are no covered or seated facilities at all.
Near the southern edge of town on High Street lies Linzee Gordon Park. This is home to Buckie Cricket Clu
Buckie Cricket Club Online 2008 which has a very long history with numerous
Macallan
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North of Scotland Cricket Association Leagu
NoSCA - North of Scotland Cricket Associationtitles (having last topped the league in 2018) on top of various league and cup wins in the 1990s including two wins in the prestigious
Scottish Cricket Union
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The SCU was formed in 1908, but underwent a major restruct ...
Small Clubs Cup, specifically in 1995 and 1997.
[ ] BCC built a modern pavilion to replace their aging home, which opened in June 1998. The construction was partly funded by
sportscotland
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The Scottish Sports Council was established in 1972 by royal charter. The body works in partnership with public, pri ...
and the
National Lottery. Linzee Gordon Park also has a municipal pavilion along with adjoining pitch for football use. Additionally, for some of the year, the football pitch at Linzee Gordon Park had been converted to become a rugby pitch where Buckie RFC trained and played home games although the club ceased operations as of 28 May 2011 due to lack of interest.
Bowling is a popular pastime in Buckie and the town boasts two greens. Buckie Bowling Club is on North High Street and Low Street with views over the Moray Firth from the clubhouse. Victoria Bowling Club sits on West Church Street adjacent to Victoria Bridge and the Buckie Burn flowing below.
Buckie has a 25m swimming pool, which was built next to Buckie High School and opened in 1975.
Buckie is at the end of the
Speyside Way
The Speyside Way (Doric: '; gd, Slighe Shrath Spe) is a long-distance path in the Scottish Highlands. The route begins in Buckie and ends at Newtonmore, away. There is an optional spur leading off the main route to Tomintoul, adding and of as ...
long-distance footpath. There is magnificent coastal scenery all along the Banff coast, with easy access to areas such as
Glenlivet
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The river rises high in the Ladder Hills, flows through the village of Tomnavoulin and onto the Bridgend of Glenlivet, p ...
,
Speyside Speyside can refer to:
* Speyside, Ontario, a settlement in Ontario
* Strathspey, Scotland, the famous whisky producing region by the River Spey
** Speyside single malts, the type of whisky produced in Strathspey
* Speyside, Trinidad and Tobago
...
and the
Cairngorms
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.
Notable people
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George Henry Bennett
George Henry Bennett (18508 September 1908) was a brewer and a politician.
Bennett was born in Buckie, Banffshire, Scotland. His family emigrated to Australia in 1855.
He managed the Victoria Sugar Co. and later, with a partner, owned Excelsi ...
, brewer and politician, of Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 1850-1908
*
John Garden Scottish International footballer, 1904-1996
*
Alexander Hutchison, poet
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Alex Jappy
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* Alex Gordon (disambiguation), multiple people
* Alex Harris (disambiguation), multiple ...
, accordionist
* Avril Mair, fashion journalist and editor
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Colin Mark
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After study at ...
, lexicographer and writer in Scottish Gaelic
*
George McIntosh
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D ...
,
Victoria Cross
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recipient
*
Billy Milne
William Milne DCM, also known locally as 'Stir', (24 November 1895 – July 1975), was a Scottish footballer who played for Arsenal, before becoming a long-standing member of the club's backroom staff.
Born in Buckie, Banffshire, Milne star ...
, soldier and football player
*
Trond Mohn
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Early life
Trond Mohn is the son of Frank Mohn (1916–2002) ...
,
Norwegian
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businessman and philanthropist
*
Malcolm Slater, football player
*Jennifer Smith,
FRSE
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sociolinguist
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studies Scottish dialect
*
Isla St Clair
Isla St Clair (born 2 May 1952 as Isabella Margaret Dyce) is a Scotland, Scottish singer.
Life
Isla St Clair was born in Grangemouth, central Scotland, in 1952; her mother was Zetta Sinclair. Her family came from northeast Scotland and it was h ...
, singer
*
Alex Wilson, football player
In popular culture
Stephen King
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mentioned the Buckie Thistle Football club in his novel If It Bleeds.
References
External links
Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre1st Buckie Company Boys' Brigade - Largest UK companyBuckie & District Pipe Band
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