Buckie Harbour Grampian Region
Buckie was the largest town in the old county of Banff and is still one of the largest in Moray District. It is made up of several communities, from Buckpool or Nether Buckie in the West through Easter Buckie to Ianstown and Portessie in the East. Although it extends along three miles of coastline, it is nowhere greater in depth to the South than one mile, nor does it anywhere touch the main A98 road, keeping the town pleasantly free of heavy through traffic. With its close association with the sea, it is no surprise that Buckie's principal industry is fishing. Cluny Harbour was completed in 1880 and was in its time one of the finest harbours in the Northeast of Scotland. The Board of Fisheries and Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie completed an earlier but smaller harbour at Buckpool in 1857. It was designed and engineered by the firm D&T Stevenson (associated with Robert Louis Stevenson's father). Having become too small for use by modern shipping standards it was filled in and landscaped to provide an attractive park. Buckie Fish Market operates every morning when fish is available, but Thursdays and Fridays are usually the busiest days. By Friday night, if the weather has been favourable, the harbour is filled with fishing boats, catches have been unloaded, gear stowed and the boats prepared for their return to sea late on Sunday night or early Monday morning. The fishermen's houses in Buckie are fairly typical of the area and fall into two groups. Some of the earlier houses in the simple traditional style can still be seen in the Yardie and Seatown area of Buckie, in Portessie and in Bowie's Lane in Buckpool. Those built towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, when fishing prosperity reached an all-time high, were well designed and strongly built with good material with much attention paid to outside architectural detail. Any new developments in the Seatown have been designed to preserve the character of the existing area. Few towns of it
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Location: Buckie harbour, Moray, Grampian Region. Scotland. United Kingdom.
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