Burghead
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,850 residents
- Description: town in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Historically known as: “Burg Head”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burghead Transmitting Station and Roseisle distillery.
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.
Roseisle distillery
Distillery
Photo: Kirsty Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roseisle distillery is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery, in Roseisle, near Elgin, Moray, in the Strathspey region of Scotland. Roseisle distillery is situated 2½ miles south of Burghead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cummingston and Hopeman.
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".
Hopeman
Village
Photo: Craig Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Hopeman is situated 2 miles east of Burghead.
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. Duffus is situated 3½ miles east of Burghead.
Burghead
- Categories: town, small burgh, and locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.70168° or 57° 42′ 6″ northLongitude
-3.49017° or 3° 29′ 25″ westPopulation
1,850Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BUHOpen location code
9C9RPG25+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 811441318OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Burghead” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Burghead”
- Basque: “Burghead”
- Bulgarian: “Бургхеад”
- Cebuano: “Burghead”
- Dutch: “Burghead”
- French: “Burghead”
- Galician: “Burghead”
- German: “Burghead”
- Irish: “Am Broch”
- Italian: “Burghead”
- Japanese: “バーグヘッド”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burghead”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burghead”
- Norwegian: “Burghead”
- Persian: “بورگهد”
- Scots: “Burgheid”
- Scots: “The Broch”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Am Broch”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Burghead”
- Spanish: “Burghead”
- Swedish: “Burghead”
- Welsh: “Burghead”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Burghead Community Hall and Burghead Parish Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Burghead”. Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.