Elgin
Elgin is the county town of Moray in northeast Scotland, best known for its ruined cathedral which made it a "city". Together with nearby Lossiemouth it's the service town for two nearby Royal Air Force bases, with a population in 2016 of 24,760.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 25,000 residents
- Description: former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Elgin, Moray”
Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elgin Cathedral and Borough Briggs.
Elgin Cathedral
Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elgin Cathedral, a historic ruin in Elgin, Moray, northeast Scotland, was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was established in 1224 on land granted by King Alexander II and stood outside the burgh of Elgin, close to the River Lossie.
Borough Briggs
Stadium
Photo: Suxamethonium, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Borough Briggs is a football ground in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. This venue is the home ground of Elgin City who currently play in Scottish League Two. Borough Briggs opened on 20 August 1921 when Inverness Citadel were the visitors in a Highland League fixture, which Elgin won 3–0.
Elgin railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line, between Keith and Forres, measured 12 miles 18 chains from Forres.
Elgin
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.6488° or 57° 38′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.3148° or 3° 18′ 53″ westPopulation
25,000Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ELGOpen location code
9C9RJMXP+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 26513878OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Elgin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إلغين”
- Asturian: “Elgin”
- Azerbaijani: “Elqin”
- Basque: “Elgin”
- Bengali: “এল্গিন শহর”
- Breton: “Eilginn”
- Bulgarian: “Елгин”
- Catalan: “Elgin”
- Cebuano: “Elgin (kapital sa dapit sa konseho)”
- Cebuano: “Elgin”
- Chinese: “埃尔根”
- Chinese: “埃爾根”
- Chinese: “埃爾金”
- Czech: “Elgin”
- Danish: “Elgin”
- Dutch: “Elgin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الجين”
- Esperanto: “Elgin”
- Finnish: “Elgin”
- French: “Elgin”
- Galician: “Elgin”
- German: “Eilginn Muireibh”
- German: “Elgin”
- Gujarati: “એલ્ગિન”
- Hebrew: “אלגין”
- Irish: “Eilginn”
- Italian: “Elgin”
- Japanese: “エルギン”
- Japanese: “エルギンシティ”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್ಗಿನ್”
- Kazakh: “Элгин”
- Korean: “엘긴”
- Lithuanian: “Elgin Sitis”
- Lithuanian: “Elginas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elgin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elgin”
- Norwegian: “Elgin”
- Persian: “الگین”
- Polish: “Elgin”
- Portuguese: “Elgin”
- Russian: “Элгин”
- Scots: “Elgin, Moray”
- Scots: “Elgin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilginn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Elgin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Elgin, Moray”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Elgin”
- Silesian: “Elgin (Szkocyjo)”
- Silesian: “Elgin”
- Slovak: “Elgin”
- Slovenian: “Elgin”
- South Azerbaijani: “القین”
- Spanish: “Eilginn”
- Spanish: “Elgin”
- Swedish: “Eilginn”
- Swedish: “Elgin”
- Tamil: “எல்ஜின்”
- Telugu: “ఎలిగిన్”
- Turkish: “Elgin, Moray”
- Turkish: “Elgin”
- Ukrainian: “Елгін”
- Urdu: “الگین، مورے”
- Urdu: “یلجین”
- Welsh: “Elgin”
- “Elgin”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Elgin”. Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.