Buckie is a burgh town (defined thus in 1888) on the Moray Firth coastline of Scotland. Historically in Banffshire, Buckie was the biggest town in the region by some hundreds of citizens before 1975, when the administrative region was eliminated. The community is the 3rd biggest in the Moray council location after Elgin and also Forres and also within the meanings of data published by the General Register Office for Scotland was rated at number 75 in the list of population estimates for settlements in Scotland mid-year 2006. Buckie lies essentially equidistant to Banff to the eastern and Elgin to the west with both neighborhoods being about 17 miles (27 kilometres) far-off whilst Keith exists 12 mi (19 kilometres) to the south by road. Geographically, the town is, generally speaking, set out in a straight style, following the coastline. There is a lower coast location and an upper area. Basically Buckie itself is the main part of the area existing 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 over the shore location. To the west of Victoria Bridge and the Buckie Burn is Buckpool, which was previously known as Nether Buckie, and also on the coastline, west of Cluny Harbour, between Baron Street as well as the Buckie Burn mouth, there is the Yardie. Instantly over the Yardie on the Buckie side of the burn is the Seatown. To the west of the Yardie is Harbourhead. To the eastern of Cluny Harbour lie Ianstown, Gordonsburgh and Portessie likewise known in your area as The Sloch (traditionally The Rotten Slough), which reaches towards Strathlene. These neighborhoods were, to all intents and functions, separate fishing negotiations that progressively merged throughout time. A brand-new community was set out over the shoreline in the 19th century and this is the rump of Buckie.