Buckie is a burgh community (defined thus in 1888) on the Moray Firth coastline of Scotland. Historically in Banffshire, Buckie was the largest community in the area by some thousands of occupants before 1975, when the administrative county was abolished. The town is the 3rd biggest in the Moray council area after Elgin and also Forres and within the definitions of stats released by the General Register Office for Scotland was placed at number 75 in the listing of population estimates for settlements in Scotland mid-year 2006. Buckie exists virtually equidistant to Banff to the eastern and also Elgin to the west with both areas being approximately 17 miles (27 kilometres) distant whilst Keith exists 12 mi (19 kilometres) to the south by road. Geographically, the community is, extensively speaking, laid out in a straight fashion, following the coast. There is a lower shore area and a top location. Basically Buckie itself is the central part of the neighborhood existing in between the Victoria Bridge under which moves the Buckie Burn at the western end of West Church Street, the eastern end of Cluny Harbour and also above the coast location. To the west of Victoria Bridge as well as the Buckie Burn is Buckpool, which was formerly referred to as Nether Buckie, as well as on the coastline, west of Cluny Harbour, in between Baron Street and the Buckie Burn mouth, there is the Yardie. Quickly over the Yardie on the Buckie side of the melt is the Seatown. To the west of the Yardie is Harbourhead. To the eastern of Cluny Harbour exist Ianstown, Gordonsburgh and Portessie also well-known locally as The Sloch (traditionally The Rotten Slough), which reaches towards Strathlene. These neighborhoods were, to all intents and also objectives, different angling negotiations that progressively combined over the course of time. A new town was set out above the shoreline in the 19th century and also this is the rump of Buckie.