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{{short description|Town on Moray Firth, Scotland}}
{{for-multi|the fortified wine|Buckfast Tonic Wine|the mollusc|Whelk}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2013}}
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| static_image_name                = Buckie - geograph.org.uk - 711749.jpg
| static_image_caption             = East Church Street looking eastwards
| country                          = Scotland
| official_name                    = Buckie
| scots_name                       =
| gaelic_name                      = Bucaidh
| population                       = {{Scottish locality population|name|POP=Buckie}}
| population_ref                   = ({{Scottish settlement population citation|year}})<ref>{{Scottish settlement population citation}}</ref>
| os_grid_reference                = NJ425655
| coordinates                      = {{coord|57|40|35|N|2|57|54|W|display=inline,title}}
| map_type                         = Scotland
| civil_parish                     = [[Rathven]]
| unitary_scotland                 = [[Moray]]
| lieutenancy_scotland             = [[Banffshire]]
| constituency_westminster         = [[Aberdeenshire North and Moray East (UK Parliament constituency)|Aberdeenshire North and Moray East]]
| constituency_scottish_parliament = [[Banffshire and Buchan Coast (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Banffshire and Buchan Coast]]
| post_town                        = BUCKIE
| postcode_district                = AB56
| postcode_area                    = AB
| dial_code                        = 01542 
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'''Buckie''' ({{langx|gd|Bucaidh}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/placename/buckie/|title=Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba - Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland - Database|work=gaelicplacenames.org|access-date=25 August 2015|archive-date=20 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920210507/https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/placename/buckie/|url-status=dead}}</ref>) is a [[burgh]] town (defined as such in [[List of burghs in Scotland|1888]]) on the [[Moray Firth]] coast of [[Scotland]]. [[Counties of Scotland|Historically]] in [[Banffshire]], Buckie was the largest town in the county until the administrative area was abolished in 1975. The town is the third largest in the [[Moray]] council area after [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]] and [[Forres]] and within the definitions of statistics published by the [[General Register Office for Scotland]] was ranked at number 75 in the list of population estimates for settlements in Scotland mid-year 2006.<ref name="GROS 2006">{{cite web|url=http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/settlements-and-localities/mid-2006-population-estimates-for-settlements-in-scotland/list-of-tables.html |title=General Register Office for Scotland - Mid-2006 Population Estimates for Settlements in Scotland - List of Tables |publisher=General Register Office for Scotland |access-date=12 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131113242/http://gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/settlements-and-localities/mid-2006-population-estimates-for-settlements-in-scotland/list-of-tables.html |archive-date=31 January 2009 }}</ref> Buckie is virtually equidistant to [[Banff, Aberdeenshire|Banff]] to the east and Elgin to the west, with both approximately {{convert|17|mi|km|abbr=off}} distant whilst [[Keith, Moray|Keith]] lies {{convert|12|mi|km|abbr=on}} to the south by road.

==Etymology==
The origin of the name of the town is not entirely clear. Although the [[folk etymology]] is that Buckie is named after a [[seashell]] ([[genus]] ''[[buccinum]]'') the shared marine background is most likely a coincidence. The name Buckie would not have originally identified a place immediately adjacent to the sea, so alternative [[etymological]] sources are more likely. Unfortunately, in one of the earlier books on Scottish place names, Buckie on the Moray Firth does not receive a mention. However, a Buckie in the [[Balquhidder]] district of [[Perthshire]] is described as being derived from the [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] word ''boc'' or [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''bowk'', both meaning a buck or male deer. This suggests the meaning of Buckie as ''place where male deer gather'', possibly referring to the valley of what is known today as the Buckie Burn.

==History==
[[File:buckie harbour.jpg|frame|left|Cluny Harbour, with town in background]]
A 1936 article by a Dr Cramond<ref name="bucher">{{cite web|url=http://www.buckieheritage.org/oldsnippets.htm |title=Buckie Heritage : Buckie & District : Old Snippets |publisher=Buckie Heritage |access-date=21 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121235854/http://www.buckieheritage.org/oldsnippets.htm |archive-date=21 November 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref> discusses the earliest mention of Buckie dating from 1362, when the lands of ''Rove Bucky in le Awne'' were leased by John Hay to John Young, vicar of [[Fordyce, Banffshire|Fordyce]]. The Hays, from whom the Rannes family were descended, had acquired through Royal favour a footing in the district at a still earlier age when the greater part from the Deveron to the Spey was embraced in the Forest of Awne or Ainie (now Enzie) and the Boyne. Rove Bucky is far from understandable and could be a scribe's error and should perhaps read Over Bucky as occurs in older title deeds, in distinction to Nether Buckie. It has been spelt in different ways, [[Robert Burns]] calling it Bucky in his song ''Lady Onlie - Honest Lucky''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky |url=http://www.robertburnsfederation.com/poems/translations/lady_onlie_honest_lucky.htm |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.robertburnsfederation.com}}</ref> as was common at the end of the 18th century.

Robert Gordon's map ''Aberdeen, Banf, Murrey &c. to Inverness: [and] Fra the north water to Ross'',<ref name="gordon-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/counties/detail.cfm?id=9 |title=Counties of Scotland, 1580-1928 - Maps of Scotland |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301050730/http://www.nls.uk/maps/counties/detail.cfm?id=9 |archive-date=1 March 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref> which is dated at some time between 1636 and 1652, shows Buckie in its own right as a community some small distance from the coast with the community of Freuchny sitting nearer the shore to the north. Robert Gordon and Joan Blaeu's ''Duo Vicecomitatus Aberdonia & Banfia, una cum Regionibus & terrarum tractibus sub iis comprehensis''<ref name="blaeu-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/blaeu/page.cfm?id=87 |title=Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654 - Maps - National Library of Scotland |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711203757/http://www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/blaeu/page.cfm?id=87 |archive-date=11 July 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref> published in [[Amsterdam]] 1654 clearly shows Buckie and Freuchny with the addition of Nether Buckie. James Robertson's ''Topographical and military map of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine'',<ref name="robertson-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/joins/570.html |title=Topographical and military map of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine - Maps of Scotland |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227124558/http://www.nls.uk/maps/joins/570.html |archive-date=27 February 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref> [[London]], 1822 seems geographically inaccurate in its relative positioning of Buckie, Nether Buckie and Freuchny, but is significant in that the new label of Rotten Slough is given equal importance in terms of size of community with Buckie; however, in ''Thomson’s Atlas of Scotland'',<ref name="thomson-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/thomson/523.html |title=Northern Part of Aberdeen & Banff Shires - John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832 |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227131147/http://www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/thomson/523.html |archive-date=27 February 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref> [[Edinburgh]], 1832 Rotten Slough is fairly unimportant by size so one of these two reference publications is distorted, probably the former. This community, which would later come to be known as [[Portessie]], was reportedly formed when "Porteasie.....became a fishing station in 1727, when 5 houses were built by the proprietor of Rannes for the accommodation of the original fishers from [[Findhorn]]". The 1731 Rathven Session Minutes shows that Rotten Slough had a population of 40 with ten households while the 1791 entry records 177 persons in 44 households.<ref name="sloch-pop">{{cite web|url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sheena_charles/FRSfams.htm|title=Early Findochty & Portessie families|access-date=17 November 2008|archive-date=24 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524104143/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sheena_charles/FRSfams.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

By the time of the publication of the 1891 First Series [[Ordnance Survey]] Map of [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]],<ref name="os-map">{{cite web|url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/oneinch_1st_list.html|title=Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile maps of Scotland, 1st Edition - 1856-1891 - National Library of Scotland|publisher=National Library of Scotland|access-date=17 November 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225111032/http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/oneinch_1st_list.html|archive-date=25 February 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref> which reflects the 1866-1870 survey, Buckie has developed markedly with areas named Seatown, Newtown, Ianstown and Portessie. The 19th century OS Six Inch series<ref name="os6-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/6inch/index.html |title=Ordnance Survey Maps Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882 - National Library of Scotland |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201072042/http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/6inch/index.html |archive-date=1 December 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref> further shows Gordonsburgh, Craig Bow and Strathlene. The 1910 OS 3rd Edition one-inch map of Elgin<ref name="os3rd-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/oneinch_3rd_list.html |title=Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile maps of Scotland, 3rd Edition - 1903-1912 - National Library of Scotland |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=21 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205084453/http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/oneinch_3rd_list.html |archive-date=5 December 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref> has settled on the name of Ianstown and all other parts of Buckie are named as they are known today but then, just to confuse the issue, the Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland,<ref name="bar-map">{{cite web|url=http://www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/bartholomew/page.cfm?id=1189 |title=Nairn, Elgin - Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland, 1912 |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=21 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309073905/http://www.nls.uk/maps/atlas/bartholomew/page.cfm?id=1189 |archive-date=9 March 2009 }}</ref> Edinburgh, 1912 uses the label ''Ianston''. The conflicting nomenclature continued with the issue of the 1929 OS One-inch Popular edition<ref name="os30-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk:8080/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=Maps&item=/74400588.sid&style=maps.xsl&wid=700&hei=500&browser=win_ie&plugin=false |title=Maps: Viewing 74400588.sid |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=21 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003154630/http://www.nls.uk:8080/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=Maps&item=%2F74400588.sid&style=maps.xsl&wid=700&hei=500&browser=win_ie&plugin=false |archive-date=3 October 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> and the 1933 JG Bartholomew & Son, Half-inch to the Mile maps of Scotland.<ref name="bar2-map">{{cite web |url=http://www.nls.uk:8080/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=Maps&item=/74467012.sid&style=maps.xsl&wid=700&hei=500&browser=win_ie&plugin=false |title=Maps: Viewing 74467012.sid |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=21 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003154638/http://www.nls.uk:8080/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=Maps&item=%2F74467012.sid&style=maps.xsl&wid=700&hei=500&browser=win_ie&plugin=false |archive-date=3 October 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Geography==
The town lies on the Moray coast, around five miles east of the mouth of the [[River Spey]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Walking the River Spey - Sea to Source &#124; Craghoppers UK | url=https://www.craghoppers.com/the-journal/walking-the-river-spey/ }}</ref> On the eastern side it largely comes to an end against the Freuchny burn, whilst the more central Buckie Burn divides Buckie and Buckpool. Buckie comprises numerous former separate fishing villages, each of which retain their own name and character.<ref>{{cite web | title=ASPC- Sorry there has been an error | url=https://www.aspc.co.uk/blog/posts/2017/may/life-in-buckie-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-town/ }}</ref> Buckie itself is the central part of the community lying between the Victoria Bridge under which flows the Buckie Burn at the western end of West Church Street, the eastern end of Cluny Harbour and above the shore area. West of the Buckie Burn is [[Buckpool]], which was formerly known as Nether Buckie, and on the shoreline, west of Cluny Harbour, there is the Yardie. Immediately above the Yardie on the Buckie side of the burn is Seatown. To the west of the Yardie is Harbourhead. To the east of Cluny Harbour lie [[Ianstown]], Gordonsburgh and [[Portessie]] also known locally as ''The Sloch'' (historically ''The Rotten Slough''), which reaches towards [[Strathlene]].

===Climate===
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|location = Buckie 
|Jan high C = 6.7
|Feb high C = 7.1
|Mar high C = 9.0
|Apr high C = 11.2
|May high C = 14.0
|Jun high C = 16.2
|Jul high C = 18.5
|Aug high C = 18.3
|Sep high C = 16.0
|Oct high C = 12.7
|Nov high C = 9.2
|Dec high C = 6.7
|year high C =
|Jan low C = 1.6
|Feb low C = 1.4
|Mar low C = 2.3
|Apr low C = 3.9
|May low C = 5.5
|Jun low C = 8.2
|Jul low C = 10.1
|Aug low C = 10.4
|Sep low C = 8.9
|Oct low C = 6.5
|Nov low C = 3.9
|Dec low C = 1.7
|year low C = 
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 53
|Feb precipitation mm = 46
|Mar precipitation mm = 50
|Apr precipitation mm = 48
|May precipitation mm = 50
|Jun precipitation mm = 61
|Jul precipitation mm = 60
|Aug precipitation mm = 63
|Sep precipitation mm = 73
|Oct precipitation mm = 84
|Nov precipitation mm = 73
|Dec precipitation mm = 55
|year precipitation mm = 716
|unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 16.5
|Feb precipitation days = 13.7
|Mar precipitation days = 13.7
|Apr precipitation days = 11.8
|May precipitation days = 11.7
|Jun precipitation days = 11.1
|Jul precipitation days = 11.8
|Aug precipitation days = 12.5
|Sep precipitation days = 12.7
|Oct precipitation days = 16.6
|Nov precipitation days = 17.5
|Dec precipitation days = 16.0
|year precipitation days = 
|Jan sun = 46.5
|Feb sun = 86.8
|Mar sun = 108.5
|Apr sun = 148.8
|May sun = 192.2
|Jun sun = 164.3
|Jul sun = 151.9
|Aug sun = 145.7
|Sep sun = 117.8
|Oct sun = 89.9
|Nov sun = 58.9
|Dec sun = 37.2
|year sun = 1348.5
|source 1 = [[Gazetteer for Scotland]]<ref name="gazetteer">{{cite web |url=https://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townclimate206.html |title=Climate Information for Buckie |publisher=[[Gazetteer for Scotland]] |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref>
}}

==Population and demography==
The [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 UK Census]] reported that, from Buckie's total population, 84.2% were born in Scotland with the largest single minority being those born in [[England]] (9.76%). In terms of declared ethnicity, the largest was "White Scottish", at 84.25%.

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{{Col-break}}
<big>'''Population'''</big><br />
<br />
'''Males:''' 4380 - 48.34%<br />
'''Females:''' 4681 - 51.66%<br />
'''Total:''' 9061
{{Col-break}}
<big>'''Age structure (%)'''</big><br />
<br />
'''0 – 4 years:''' 5.3<br />
'''5 – 15 years:''' 12.9<br />
'''16 – 29 years:''' 15.0<br />
'''30 – 44 years:''' 18.5<br />
'''45 – 59 years:''' 20.3<br />
'''60 – 74 years:''' 16.9<br />
'''75+ years:''' 11.1
{{Col-break}}
<big>'''Religion (%)'''</big><br />
<br />
'''Church of Scotland:''' 19.03<br />
'''Roman Catholic:''' 4.98<br />
'''Other Christian:''' 8.05<br />
'''Muslim:''' 0.33<br />
'''Buddhist:''' 0.21<br />
'''Hindu:''' 0.12<br />
'''Jewish:''' 0.04<br />
'''Sikh:''' 0.06<br />
'''Pagan:''' 0.28<br />
'''Other:''' 0.36<br />
'''None:''' 60.90<br />
'''Not stated:''' 5.71
{{Col-break}}
<big>'''Country of birth (%)'''</big><br />
<br />
'''Scotland:''' 84.20<br />
'''England:''' 9.76<br />
'''Wales:''' 0.46<br />
'''Northern Ireland:''' 0.25<br />
'''UK part not specified:''' 0.04<br />
'''Republic of Ireland:''' 0.04<br />
'''European Union:''' 2.96<br />
'''Other Europe:''' 0.24<br />
'''Africa:''' 0.42<br />
'''Americas and the Caribbean:''' 0.45<br />
'''Middle East and Asia:''' 0.90<br />
'''Antartica and Oceania and Other:''' 0.18
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<big>'''Ethnic group (%)'''</big><br />
<br />
'''White Scottish:''' 84.25<br />
'''White Other British:''' 9.79<br />
'''White Irish:''' 0.14<br />
'''White Other:''' 2.30<br />
'''White Polish:''' 0.95<br />
'''Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British:''' 1.09<br />
'''African:''' 0.23<br />
'''Caribbean:''' 0.1<br />
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<small>'''Source: https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ Scotland's Census, 2021 Census data'''</small>

==Politics==

===National governments===
Formerly part of the [[Moray (UK Parliament constituency)|Moray]] constituency from 1983 to 2024, Buckie is now in the [[Aberdeenshire North and Moray East (UK Parliament constituency)|Aberdeenshire North and Moray East]] constituency for [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|the UK Parliament]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Review of UK Parliament Constituencies {{!}} The Boundary Commission for Scotland |url=https://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/?q=reviews/2023-review-uk-parliament-constituencies |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk}}</ref> which returned the SNP MP [[Seamus Logan]] as its [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] in the [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 General Election]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lastt election result for Samus Logan - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/5280/electionresult |access-date=2024-10-11}}</ref> 
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Buckie is in the [[Banffshire and Buchan Coast (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency]] of the [[Scottish Parliament]]. The seat was represented by SNP MSP [[Stewart Stevenson]] from 2011 until 2021 and by SNP MSP [[Karen Adam]] since the Scottish Parliament election of 2021.<ref>[http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/home.htm http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/home.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430124424/http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/home.htm |date=30 April 2011 }} ''scottish.parliament.uk''</ref> The constituency is also part of the [[North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|North East Scotland electoral region]].

===Local government===
{{see also|2022 Moray Council election}}

Following the reorganisation of local government in Scotland, Buckie now has a multi-member ward with 3 councillors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-25 |title=Moray Council Election Results 2022 - Moray Council |url=http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_137242.html |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.moray.gov.uk}}</ref>

Additionally, there is the Buckie Community Council, which allows for 12 members to be elected or co-opted.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-16 |title=Buckie & District Community Council - Moray Council |url=http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_60779.html |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.moray.gov.uk}}</ref>

==Transport==

===Road===
Buckie is situated near the [[A98 road (Great Britain)|A98]] primary road, which connects [[Fraserburgh]] with [[Fochabers]] at the junction of the [[A96 road (Scotland)|A96]].<ref>{{cite web | title=A98 road - Road | url=https://www.routeyou.com/en-gb/location/view/48029492 }}</ref> The A98 runs east–west, approximately parallel with the southern edge of Buckie.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/57.693911,-2.007538/57.61116,-3.083651/@57.676989,-2.536469,75036m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!4m4!1m1!4e1!1m1!4e1?hl=en&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwNS4yIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D | title=Google Maps }}</ref> The A942 starts at "The Toll Bar" and runs due north from the A98 into Buckie becoming High Street and then North High Street before swinging east as Low Street, along the harbour as Commercial Road and onwards as Rathburn Street, Reidhaven Street and finally Great Eastern Road out of town towards Findochty and Portknockie.{{cn|date=September 2025}} Where the A942 swings east, the A990 commences to the west and heads past The Yardie and onwards as Main Street and then Great Western Road towards Portgordon. The nearest railway station is at Keith serving the [[Aberdeen-Inverness line]]. Bus services operate to [[Aberdeen]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Service 35 &#124; Brand new buses from Aberdeen to Elgin &#124; Stagecoach | url=https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/north-scotland/service-35 }}</ref> [[Macduff, Aberdeenshire|Macduff]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-10 |title=35 - Elgin - Buckie - Macduff - Oldmeldrum - Aberdeen |url=https://bustimes.org/services/35-elgin-aberdeen |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=bustimes.org |language=en-GB}}</ref> and [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]].<ref>{{cite web | title=35 Bus Route & Timetable: Buckie - Elgin &#124; Stagecoach | url=https://www.stagecoachbus.com/routes/north-scotland/35/buckie-elgin/XAAO035.I }}</ref> A connecting service to [[Keith railway station]] was withdrawn when Moray Council funding ceased in September 2013, but it resumed in 2022 following local pressure.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=Buckie-Keith bus route set to make welcome return |url=https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/buckie/buckie-keith-bus-route-set-to-make-welcome-return-270293/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Grampian Online |language=en}}</ref>

===Golden Age of the Railway===
Historically, Buckie had extensive rail connections with the rest of [[North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|North East Scotland]]. The [[Great North of Scotland Railway]]<ref name="railscot1">{{cite web|url=http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Great_North_of_Scotland_Railway/frame.htm| title=Great North of Scotland Railway|publisher=Ewan Crawford|access-date=5 November 2008}}</ref> was laid out in the 1850s and served the [[Aberdeen]] to [[Inverness]] route until it was decommissioned in the late 1960s. This construction did not reach the coast until [[Nairn]] and various branch lines were built to link the peripheral areas to the mainline service.

[[File:Buckie GNS railway station 1932359.jpg|thumb|right|Buckie railway station in 1961]]In 1923, GNSR was absorbed into the [[London and North Eastern Railway]] before that itself was [[nationalised]] along with all other [[UK]] rail services into [[British Rail]] in 1948.

The [[Moray Coast Railway]]<ref name="railscot2">{{cite web|url=http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Moray_Coast_Railway/frame.htm|title=Moray Coast Railway|publisher=Ewan Crawford|access-date=5 November 2008}}</ref> was also constructed by GNSR and the part of it that served Buckie, opening in 1886, ran from [[Cairnie]] near [[Keith, Moray|Keith]] down to the coast at [[Portsoy]] and then swung west through Cullen, Portknockie and Findochty reaching its first stop in Buckie at [[Portessie railway station|Portessie]]. This station was built directly on top of the cliff and commanded panoramic views over the Strathlene House Hotel, Strathlene outdoor swimming pool and beach and onward to the offshore rocks of Craigenroan and the Moray Firth. Indeed, a footpath led from the station down to the hotel and beach area and a visit to Strathlene was a popular day out by train before and during [[World War II]]. In 1936 Buckie Town Council proposed to change the name of the station to Strathlene but LNER declined suggesting instead that the Town Council erect their own large sign on Strathlene Golf Course that could be seen from the train.<ref name="bucher"/> A retired passenger carriage was available for rent at the station. {{convert|1|mi|km}} to the west was [[Buckie railway station|Buckie Station]], which was located below the cliff and virtually across the street from Buckie Fish Market. To reach Buckie Station the railway gently descended to the west from the heights of Portessie on an embankment to the foot of the cliff whilst the parallel road lying adjacent to the track on its southern flank rose to the west up the ''McLaren's Brae'' end of East Church Street to the town centre. {{convert|1|mi}} further west stood [[Buckpool railway station|Buckpool Station]] and from there the line continued due west to Portgordon and onward to [[Spey Bay]] before crossing the [[River Spey]] and swinging inland to rejoin the mainline service at Elgin. Buckie was served by these three railway stations until 1968 when the line was finally closed.

It is possible to walk, or cycle along the route of the old railway from Cullen to [[Garmouth]]. This walk takes in the magnificent Cullen viaduct from which fine views of that town can be had and, at the other end, the Spey Bridge.

[[File:Buckpool rauilway station 1934513 20d1f683.jpg|thumb|right|Remains of Buckpool station in 1961]]
Portessie was also terminus to the [[Buckie and Portessie Branch]]<ref name="railscot3">{{cite web|url=http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Buckie_and_Portessie_Branch/frame.htm|title= Buckie and Portessie Branch|publisher=Ewan Crawford|access-date=5 November 2008}}</ref> of the [[Highland Railway]].<ref name="railscot4">{{cite web|url=http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Highland_Railway/frame.htm|publisher=Railscot|title=Highland Railway|author=Ewan Crawford|access-date=8 November 2008}}</ref> This line was opened in 1884 and provided a direct rail link "up the hill" to Keith. The line ran westwards from Portessie but remained on top of the cliff, passing the Pot O' Linn, skirting the rear of Cliff Terrace and crossing Harbour Street then swinging south contributing to the curve of Mill Crescent to stop at [[Buckie railway station (Highland Railway)|Buckie Highland Station]] before continuing up present day Millbank Terrace towards Rathven. Until recent years this latter section was used as a footpath and commonly known as "The Highland Line" – it was quite possible to cycle from Millbank Terrace to the site of Rathven Station as late as the 1970s and even early 1980s – but housing development and farming interests have contributed to the virtual closure of this popular route to Peter Fair Park. The line passed under a road bridge of what is now the A98, which has long since been demolished, and then turned westwards again towards Drybridge and made another sweep to the south as it passed Enzie and then headed uphill, over the Enzie Braes, to Aultmore and on to Keith. This link was relatively short-lived and was closed in 1915 except for a freight service between Buckie and Portessie, which was closed in 1944.

==As a port==
The industrial centre of Buckie is based around Cluny Harbour.<ref>http://www.sixharbourwalk.com/the-harbours/Buckie/ {{Bare URL inline|date=September 2025}}</ref> This port was built by the Cluny family in 1877 to replace the town's first stone harbour in Nether Buckie, which was constructed in 1857 {{convert|1|mi|km|0}} west but had a tendency to silt up and become unusable.<ref name="undis-scot">{{cite web|url=http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/buckie/buckie/index.html|title=Buckie Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland|publisher=Undiscovered Scotland|access-date=5 November 2008}}</ref> The Laird of Letterfourie contributed £5,000 of the construction costs at Nether Buckie but the main investor with the balance of £10,000 was the Board of Fisheries. The engineers were D.& T. Stevenson of Edinburgh, the family firm of the author [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]. It was and remains a very sturdily built edifice with the main walls of considerable thickness being built of [[quartzite]], quarried locally at Strathlene, capped with a very hard type of sandstone, which was also used to form the walls at the entrance and of the harbour proper. As regards stability the harbour has remained a monument to engineering science with very little maintenance ever being necessary. It had a design fault, however, in that the entrance opened to the northeast and was subject to infill with shingle, moving westwards by [[longshore drift]]. Later known as Buckpool Harbour, this earlier port became something of an eyesore and eventually the silted basin became overgrown and dangerously swampy. The decision was taken to fill in the basin and this work was undertaken in the 1970s. The resulting park includes a pebble beach and the original quartzite harbour walls remain completely intact. Cluny Harbour was built by the Cluny family in 1877 at a cost of £60,000: at the time it was one of the finest harbours in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Buckie Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland |url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/buckie/buckie/index.html |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk}}</ref>

==Industry==
Although Buckie was once a thriving [[fishing]] and [[shipbuilding]] port, these industries have declined.<ref>https://lx.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/0084016.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2025}}</ref> Though Peterhead and Aberdeen are now more often associated with the [[fishing industry]] in northeast Scotland, in 1913 Buckie had the largest steam drifter fleet in Scotland.<ref name="fishing">{{cite web|url=http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=649|title=Ports.org.uk/Buckie|publisher=Duncan Mackintosh|access-date=7 November 2008}}</ref> Food processing remains important, with large fish factories and smoke houses found around the harbour. Buckie can properly be regarded as one of the main points of origin of the modern Scottish [[shellfish]] industry.<ref name="seafoods">{{cite web|url=http://www.highlandbayseafoods.co.uk/|title=Pride of Moray|publisher=Moray Seafoods|access-date=7 November 2008}}</ref> A [[Manchester|Mancunian]], Charles Eckersley, who moved to Buckie in the 1950s and started trading as a fish merchant, noticed that shellfish such as [[prawns]] and [[scallops]] were regarded as economically useless by Buckie fishing vessels but were the same species that he had enjoyed whilst completing his [[National Service]] in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]]. He seized the opportunity to exploit this gap in the market and he built a thriving processing and packing business.

The [[Herd & McKenzie Shipbuilders|Buckie Shipyard]] now repairs and refits [[RNLI]] lifeboats for much of the [[United Kingdom]]<ref name="RNLI">{{cite web|url=http://www.buckieshipyard.com/clients.htm|title=RNLI and M.O.D., Orkney Ferries|publisher=Buckie Shipyard|access-date=23 July 2011|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510045711/http://www.buckieshipyard.com/clients.htm|archive-date=10 May 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and operates service contracts for various other clients including the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|MoD]] as well as building new vessels but boatbuilding was a major industry in the town for decades. Until recent years there were three separate boatyards building traditional wooden [[Clinker (boat building)|clinker]] fishing vessels. Heading down North High Street, the view of the sea would have been interrupted by a huge grey corrugated iron shed. This was Thomsons, from which vessels were launched directly into the Moray Firth from a slipway. Heading east to Cluny Harbour was Herd and Mackenzie on the fourth or ''lifeboat'' basin of the harbour. Directly behind their large sheds and across Blantyre Terrace was Jones with their private harbour into which they launched their vessels.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|cat=PLA |num=133229 |num2=NJ46NW 14 |desc=Buckie, Ianstown, Blantyre Terrace, Jones Buckie Shipyard Ltd}}</ref> Thomsons is gone but the premises of Herd and McKenzie and Jones are part of the modern day Buckie Shipyard. It was Herd and McKenzie, a firm with its roots in [[Dunbartonshire]] from where Messrs Herd and Mackenzie sortied north, which built and launched the training [[schooner]] ''[[Shabab Oman|Captain Scott]]'' in 1972. At the time of its launch, this vessel was the largest of its type in the world. In earlier years, there were further boat construction operations dotted along the shoreline from The Yardie to Ianstown and on to Portessie but these had mostly been amalgamated into the three main firms or had gone out of business by the [[interwar period]].

A significant part of the population works in the offshore [[Petroleum|oil]] industry although Buckie somewhat missed the boat with the [[North Sea]] boom. In the late 1970s, there were extensive plans drawn up to extend Cluny Harbour out to the Mucks [[reef]] with the intention of serving oilfield supply vessels. Nothing came of this but every now and then the idea rears its head once more to be met with great enthusiasm before failing to get off the ground again.

Buckie was home to a specialist electric lamp factory of [[Thorn EMI]] until 1987<ref name="bulb">{{cite web|url=http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/833972?UserKey=|title=Authors turn spotlight on bulb factory - Press & Journal|publisher=Aberdeen Journals|access-date=10 November 2008}}{{Dead_link|date=September 2025}}
</ref> when it was closed and production moved to a new plant in [[Leicestershire]]. All of the predominantly female staff were offered jobs at the new facility in the [[East Midlands]] but, as the vast majority of the labour force were second wage earners in families, this offer was almost universally rejected.

Buckie is home to the Inchgower Distillery, which sits {{convert|1|mi|km|0}} or so inland from the town and is best known for the [[Inchgower Single Malt]].<ref name="inchgower">{{cite web|url=http://www.scotchwhisky.net/malt/inchgower.htm|title=Inchgower Single Malt Scotch Whisky - scotchwhisky.net|publisher=scotchwhisky.net|access-date=7 November 2008}}</ref>

==Religion==
[[File:Buckpool.JPG|thumb|336px|St Peter's, Buckie, as seen from offshore between Cluny and Buckpool harbours]]
As a traditional fishing community, Buckie had an active religious life, and thus has numerous churches representing almost every branch of Northern European [[Christianity]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Churches in Buckie - Find a Church | url=https://www.findachurch.co.uk/Search.aspx?address=buckie&secret=e2c9fa }}</ref> The largest church is [[St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Buckie|St. Peter's]], which stands on St. Andrews Square in Buckpool. This twin-spired red sandstone construction was originally planned to act as the cathedral for the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Diocese]] of Aberdeen when it was opened in 1857.<ref name="scalan">{{cite web|url=http://www.scalan.co.uk/buckie.htm|title=Buckie|publisher=The Scalan Association|access-date=10 November 2008}}</ref> This never came to pass and Buckie was left with what is arguably one of the grandest churches in NE Scotland outside of Aberdeen. The basis of this reasoning was that the Roman Catholic population per capita in the area around Buckie was one of the highest in post-[[Scottish Reformation|Reformation]] Scotland.<ref>{{cite web | title=History of St Peter's | date=29 May 2012 | url=https://www.stpeters-pa.org.uk/pa/st-peters-buckie/history-of-st-peters/ }}</ref> [[St. Gregory's Church, Preshome|St. Gregory's]], built at Preshome near Buckie in 1788, was the first post-Reformation church to be built in Scotland that looked like a church – prior to that date post-Reformation Roman Catholics worshiped in [[Schuilkerk|clandestine churches]] designed to look anonymous. These sometimes resembled farm buildings or ordinary houses, a superbly preserved example of this is [[St. Ninian's Church, Tynet|St. Ninian's]] (1775) at Tynet about {{convert|4|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} to the west of Buckie, which looks like a long, low barn.<ref name="rc-dio-abdn">{{cite web|url=http://www.dioceseofaberdeen.com/pp/dnrymor03.html |title=Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen Parish Profile |publisher=RC Diocese of Aberdeen |access-date=5 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712060059/http://www.dioceseofaberdeen.com/pp/dnrymor03.html |archive-date=12 July 2007 }}</ref><ref name=Kaplan>Kaplan, Benjamin J., ''Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe,'' Harvard University Press, 2007, Chapter 8, pp. 198. ff.</ref>

[[File:St Peter's Church - geograph.org.uk - 223361.jpg|thumb|St Peter's Roman Catholic Church]]
The largest [[Church of Scotland]] congregation in the town worships in the North Church in Cluny Square. This building houses the town clock and was opened in 1879.<ref name="cofs-pres-moray">{{cite web |url=http://www.moraypresbytery.org.uk/churches/display.php?id=33 |title=Presbytery of Moray |publisher=Presbytery of Moray |access-date=5 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821012008/http://www.moraypresbytery.org.uk/churches/display.php?id=33 |archive-date=21 August 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref> There are other Church of Scotland congregations in addition to [[Methodist]], [[Salvation Army]], [[Scottish Episcopal Church|Episcopal]], [[Baptist]], [[Gospel Hall Brethren]], [[Church of Christ]] and other congregational churches.

==Schools==
[[Buckie High School]] is located on West Cathcart Street. Examination results are in line with those of young people with similar needs and backgrounds in other schools across Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hmie.gov.uk/ViewEstablishment.aspx?id=8130&type=3 |title=Buckie High School |access-date=24 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604214938/http://www.hmie.gov.uk/ViewEstablishment.aspx?id=8130&type=3 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }} Report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIe),13 January 2009</ref>

There are four primary schools in Buckie - Cluny Primary School (Buckie Primary School until 1974) which is directly opposite the old building of the high school,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cluny.moray.sch.uk|title=Cluny Primary School Buckie - Home Page|website=www.cluny.moray.sch.uk}}</ref> Millbank Primary School on McWilliam Crescent off High Street,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/my/MillbankPrimarySchool/welcome/school/ | title=Millbank Primary School &#124; Millbank Primary School Blog }}</ref> St. Peter's RC Primary School in Buckpool<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.st-peters.moray.sch.uk/school_zone/our_school/our_school.html | title=St Peter's Primary School - Our School }}</ref> and Portessie Primary School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://portessie.moray.sch.uk/|title=Portessie Primary School Buckie - Home Page|website=portessie.moray.sch.uk}}</ref> Additional primary schools in [[Portgordon]], [[Findochty]], [[Portknockie]] and [[Cullen, Moray|Cullen]] contribute to the roll of Buckie High School.<ref>https://buckiehigh.com/bh/wp-content/uploads/Prospectus-2024.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2025}}</ref> The surrounding villages of [[Arradoul]], Drybridge, [[Rathven]] and Lintmill, most of which once had their own schools, now send students to Buckie High School and nearby primary schools. The adjoining school areas are [[Banff, Aberdeenshire|Banff]], Keith and [[Fochabers]].

==Leisure==
Buckie has two golf courses, at the eastern and western peripheries. To the eastern extremity lies [[Strathlene Golf Course]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.golfpass.com/travel-advisor/courses/16552-strathlene-golf-club | title=Strathlene Golf Club }}</ref> which stretches almost all the way to the village of Findochty; while to the west lies [[Buckpool Golf Club]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buckpoolgolf.com/|title=Buckpool Golf Club|work=buckpoolgolf.com}}</ref> which reaches towards the village of Portgordon.

Adjacent to Buckie High School is [[Victoria Park, Buckie|Victoria Park]], home of [[Buckie Thistle Football Club]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buckiethistlefc.co.uk/|title=Squish v Huntly 9.10.24|website=www.buckiethistlefc.co.uk}}</ref> Although ''The Jags'' were consistently high finishers in the [[Highland Football League]], the league title had eluded the club for decades until 2010, when an away win at [[Wick Academy F.C.]] sealed a first championship in 52 years. The championship was retained in 2011 in the last match of the season, with Buckie scoring the winner in the final minute. Since then the club has won the league twice more, in 2017 and 2024.<ref>http://sfha.org.uk/highlandleaguetables.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2025}}</ref> The 1950s was a decade when all trophies available were regularly won. During this era Buckie Thistle travelled to [[Hampden Park]] to meet Queen's Park in a Scottish Cup 4th round replay on 30 October 1954, winning 2–1,<ref name="btfc">{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/scotcuphistfull.html |title=Scotland - Cup Results 1873/74-1877/78 and 1889/90-1995/96 |publisher=Dinant Abbink/RSSSF |access-date=10 November 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023163026/http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scotcuphistfull.html#55 |archive-date=23 October 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref> becoming the first and, to this day, only senior non-league club to have won a competitive match at the national stadium. The board has developed the stadium in recent years, adding a function hall so that sponsors and match-goers can enjoy licensed and catering facilities.<ref name="btfc-func">{{cite web|url=http://www.buckiethistle.com/scottish-football/265/victoria-park-function-hall.html?PHPSESSID=lu90308om39dad7b1aomln4vv7 |title=Buckie Thistle Scottish Football Club |publisher=Buckie Thistle FC |access-date=24 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616195414/http://www.buckiethistle.com/scottish-football/265/victoria-park-function-hall.html?PHPSESSID=lu90308om39dad7b1aomln4vv7 |archive-date=16 June 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref>

In Buckpool, next door to Buckpool Golf Club, is Merson Park, home of [[Buckie Rovers F.C.|Buckie Rovers Football Club]]. ''The Rovers'' are members of the [[Scottish Junior Football Association]] and play in that body's [[Scottish Junior Football North Division One|North First Division (East)]]. At one time they played at Victoria Park, alternating home fixtures with their senior cousins but when Buckie Thistle were suffering an episode of extreme financial distress the decision was taken to move to a new facility at the municipal Merson Park. The Merson Park ground has only a perimeter fence and dugouts differentiating it from a municipal pitch and there are no covered or seated facilities.<ref name="brfc-mp">{{cite web|url=http://www.nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/north/northdiv1.htm|title=Soccerworld North First Division|publisher=nonleaguescotland.co.uk - Jamie Wire|access-date=24 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924104349/http://nonleaguescotland.co.uk/region/north/northdiv1.htm|archive-date=24 September 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Near the southern edge of town on High Street lies Linzee Gordon Park. This is home to Buckie Cricket Club,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nosca.net/buckie.asp | title=NoSCA - Buckie }}</ref> which has a very long history with numerous [[Macallan]] North of Scotland Cricket Association League titles (having last topped the league in 2018) on top of various league and cup wins in the 1990s including two wins in the [[Scottish Cricket Union]] Small Clubs Cup. The club built a modern pavilion to replace their aging home, which opened in June 1998. The construction was partly funded by [[sportscotland]] and the [[National Lottery (United Kingdom)|National Lottery]]. Linzee Gordon Park also has a municipal pavilion along with a pitch for football use.<ref>{{cite web | title=Linzee Gordon Park - Buckie | date=29 July 2016 | url=http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_103910.html }}</ref>

Buckie has two bowling greens. Buckie Bowling Club is on North High Street and Low Street with views over the Moray Firth from the clubhouse.<ref>https://www.lawnbowls.com/clubs/buckie-bowling-club {{Bare URL inline|date=September 2025}}</ref> Buckie Victoria Bowling Club is at the end of West Church Street, near the Buckpool bridge.<ref>{{cite web | title=Buckie Victoria Bowling Club &#124; Rating Business Details &#124; Food Hygiene Ratings | url=https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/26448/buckie-victoria-bowling-club }}</ref> The town also has a 25m swimming pool next to Buckie High School, which opened in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_swimming/page_40362.html|title=Buckie Swimming Pool & Fitness Centre|date=25 June 2004|work=moray.gov.uk}}</ref>

Buckie is at the end of the [[Speyside Way]] long-distance footpath.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.speysideway.co.uk/route/section-1/ | title=1 Buckie to Fochabers | work=Speyside Way }}</ref> There are "marvellous landscapes" all along the Banff coast,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.morayways.org.uk/routes/the-moray-coast-trail/ | title=The Moray Coast Trail }}</ref> with easy access to areas such as [[Glenlivet]], [[Strathspey, Scotland|Speyside]] and the [[Cairngorms]].

== Notable people ==
* [[George Henry Bennett]], brewer and politician, of Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 1850-1908<ref>{{citation| url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bennett-george-henry-5209| author=Chris McConville| date=1979| title=Bennett, George Henry (1850 - 1908)| work=Australian Dictionary of Biography| series=Volume 7| publisher=Melbourne University Press| access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Hutchison (1943–2015)|Alexander Hutchison]], poet
* [[Colin Mark]], lexicographer and writer in Scottish Gaelic 
* [[George McIntosh]], [[Victoria Cross]] recipient
* [[Billy Milne]], soldier and football player
* [[Trond Mohn]], [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] businessman and philanthropist
* [[Malcolm Slater]], football player
* [[Jennifer Smith (sociolinguist)]], [[Sociolinguistics|sociolinguist]] studies Scottish dialect<ref>{{Cite book|title=Changing English|date=2007|publisher=Routledge|others=David Graddol, Open University|isbn=978-1-000-15531-0|location=Abingdon|oclc=1165392554}}</ref>
* [[Isla St Clair]], singer
* [[Alex Wilson (footballer, born 1933)|Alex Wilson]], football player

== In popular culture ==
[[Stephen King]] mentioned Buckie Thistle in his novella collection ''[[If It Bleeds]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 July 2020 |title=Stephen King link helps Highland football team through lockdown |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/17/stephen-king-buckie-thistle-if-it-bleeds}}</ref> The author later posed wearing a Buckie Thistle football strip and scarf gifted by the football club.<ref>url=https://x.com/BuckieThistle/status/1279371007564877826</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
{{EB1911 poster|Buckie}}
* [http://www.buckieheritage.org/ Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre]
* [http://www.1stbuckiebb.com/ 1st Buckie Company Boys' Brigade - Largest UK company] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809233449/http://www.1stbuckiebb.com/ |date=9 August 2022 }}
* [http://www.buckiepipeband.co.uk/ Buckie & District Pipe Band] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911094347/http://www.buckiepipeband.co.uk/ |date=11 September 2011 }}

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