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Boddam

Boddam is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire, . It is 29 miles north of and 3 miles south of . The settlement of Stirling Village lies immediately to the west.
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Photo: Alan Jamieson, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Village with 1,330 residents
  • Description: village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Boddam, Aberdeenshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brethren Meeting House and Buchan Ness Lighthouse.

Church
Photo: Seasider53, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Category C listed building at 26 Gordon Street in Boddam, , Scotland. It was formerly a late-Victorian-era Wesleyan church.

Lighthouse
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
' is a light in Boddam, . . The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for , and amongst other destinations.

Power station
Photo: PortHenry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-unit station owned and operated by SSE plc, with a capacity of 2,177 MW. It is located near Boddam and the A90, just south of , in , in the northeast of Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Buchan Ness and Clerkhill.

Locality
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.

Suburb
Photo: Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an area of the town of in north east . Surrounded by the areas of Meethill, Dales Park and Coplandhill, it is one of the bigger areas of the town. is situated 2 miles north of Boddam.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a port in in northeast Scotland, with a population of 19,060 in 2020. Its fishing industry collapsed in the 20th century and the town is run-down, but is near attractive coastal scenery.

Boddam

Latitude
57.47214° or 57° 28′ 20″ north
Longitude
-1.78054° or 1° 46′ 50″ west
Population
1,330
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB DMB
Open location code
9C9WF6C9+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 36681212
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2655288
Wiki­data ID
Q4936404
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Boddam” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Boddam”
  • Bulgarian: “Бодам”
  • Cebuano: “Boddam”
  • Chinese: “博德姆”
  • Dutch: “Boddam”
  • French: “Boddam”
  • German: “Boddam”
  • Japanese: “ボダム”
  • Persian: “باددام”
  • Scots: “Boddam, Aiberdeenshire”
  • Scots: “Boddam”
  • Spanish: “Boddam”
  • Swedish: “Boddam”
  • Welsh: “Boddam”

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Highlights include Boddam Public Hall and United Free 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 “Boddam”. Photo: Alan Jamieson, CC BY 2.0.