Main Gate

Main Gate is a security checkpoint in Moray, Scotland. Main Gate is situated nearby to RAF Lossiemouth Saddle Club, as well as near the cemetery Kinneddar Old Parish Church and Burial-Ground.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lossiemouth Airport and Moray Golf Club.

Lossiemouth Airport

Aerodrome

Photo: Pemm, Public domain.

Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or RAF Lossiemouth is a Royal Air Force station located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland.

Moray Golf Club is situated in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. The club has two eighteen-hole courses appropriately called the Old Course and the New Course. Moray Golf Club is situated 3,400 feet north of Main Gate.

Lossiemouth High School

School

Lossiemouth High School is a secondary school in the coastal town of Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. The school's catchment area includes the nearby villages of Burghead, Hopeman, Cummingston and Duffus. Lossiemouth High School is situated 2,600 feet northeast of Main Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lossiemouth and Duffus.

Lossiemouth

Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lossiemouth is a village on the coast of Moray in North East Scotland, with a population in 2016 of 7870. It developed as a fishing port in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the harbour is small and that industry has gone.

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 west of Main Gate.

Elgin

Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 2022 of 24,600.

Main Gate

Type: Security checkpoint
Category: military installation
Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.71045° or 57° 42′ 38″ north

Longitude

-3.30787° or 3° 18′ 28″ west

Operator

Royal Air Force

Open location code

9C9RPM6R+5V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12526821970

OpenStreetMap feature

military=checkpoint

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