Hopeman
Hopeman is a seaside village in Moray, Scotland, it is situated on the coast of the Moray Firth, founded in 1805 to house and re-employ people displaced during the Highland clearances.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Craig Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gordonstoun and Burghead Transmitting Station.
Gordonstoun
School
Photo: Nibaba, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gordonstoun School is a co-educational private school for boarding and day pupils in Moray, Scotland. Two generations of British royalty have been educated at Gordonstoun, including Prince Philip and his son King Charles III. Gordonstoun is situated 2½ miles east of Hopeman.
Burghead Transmitting Station
Building
Photo: W. L. Tarbert, Public domain.
The Burghead transmitting station is a broadcasting facility near Burghead in Scotland for long wave and medium wave radio transmission that started service on 12 October 1936.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cummingston and Duffus.
Cummingston
Village
Cummingston is located in Moray on the north-east coast of Scotland. It lies on the B9012, sandwiched between the two fishing villages of Hopeman and Burghead. It was known as "the Collach", possibly from Scottish Gaelic an Coileach meaning "eddy".
Duffus
Village
Photo: Lyall Duffus, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Duffus is a village and parish in Moray, Scotland. It is best known for the nearby Duffus Castle, St. Peters' Kirk, and Spynie Palace.
Burghead
Village
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burghead is a small town in Moray, Scotland, about 8 miles north-west of Elgin. The town is mainly built on a peninsula that projects north-westward into the Moray Firth, surrounding it by water on three sides. Burghead is situated 2 miles west of Hopeman.
Hopeman
- Type: Village with 1,710 residents
- Description: village in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.70733° or 57° 42′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.43314° or 3° 25′ 59″ westPopulation
1,710Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)Inception
1805United Nations Location Code
GB HOPOpen location code
9C9RPH48+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 811441313OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2646630Wikidata ID
Q1009714
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