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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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, Cruden Bay is believed to have been the site of a battle in which the Scots under King Malcolm II defeated the Danes in 1012. 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″ northLongitude
-1.82175° or 1° 49′ 18″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB UCNOpen location code
9C9WC5MH+37OpenStreetMap ID
node 2141148458OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2654350Wikidata ID
Q4996778
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scots—“Bullers of Buchan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bullers of Buchan”
- Dutch: “Bullers of Buchan”
- French: “Bullers of Buchan”
- Scots: “The Bullers”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Bullers of Buchan”. Photo: hayley green, CC BY-SA 2.0.