Bullers of Buchan

The name Bullers of Buchan refers both to a collapsed sea cave and to the adjacent village, situated about 6 miles south of Peterhead in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Type: Hamlet
Description: village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Also known as: “Bullers o‘ Buchan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Slains Castle and RRH Buchan.

New Slains Castle

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Slains Castle, also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from the nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It overlooks the North Sea from its cliff-top site one kilometre east of Cruden Bay.

RRH Buchan

Military installation

Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Remote Radar Head Buchan or RRH Buchan is an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force. It is located at Stirling Hill, 3.2 kilometres south of Peterhead on the Aberdeenshire coast of northeast Scotland. RRH Buchan is situated 2 miles north of Bullers of Buchan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cruden Bay and Boddam.

Cruden Bay

Village

Photo: DavidDixon, Public domain.

Cruden Bay is a small village in Scotland, on the north coast of the Bay of Cruden in Aberdeenshire, 26 miles north of Aberdeen. Just west of Slains Castle, local tradition associates Cruden Bay with a supposed battle in which the Scots under King Malcolm… Cruden Bay is situated 1½ miles southwest of Bullers of Buchan.

Boddam

Village

Photo: Alan Jamieson, CC BY 2.0.

Boddam is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is 29 miles north of Aberdeen and 3 miles south of Peterhead. The settlement of Stirling Village lies immediately to the west. Boddam is situated 3 miles northeast of Bullers of Buchan.

Buchan Ness

Locality

Buchan Ness is a bridged island that is connected to the village of Boddam on mainland Scotland by a road running over a short causeway. In 2022 the census recorded a permanent population on the island of a single individual. Buchan Ness is situated 3 miles northeast of Bullers of Buchan.

Bullers of Buchan

Categories: village and locality
Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.43272° or 57° 25′ 58″ north

Longitude

-1.82175° or 1° 49′ 18″ west

Elevation

49 feet (15 metres)

United Nations Location Code

GB UCN

Open location code

9C9WC5MH+37

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2141148458

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

2654350

Wikidata ID

Q4996778

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Bullers of Buchan” goes by many names.

Basque: “Bullers of Buchan”
Dutch: “Bullers of Buchan”
French: “Bullers of Buchan”
Scots: “The Bullers”
Urdu: “بلرز آف بکن”

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