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BUCKHOLMSIDE
being scared by the footing of the horse. The fisher-
men of tills town have a great many boats of all sizes,
which lie upon the beach, ready to be fitted out every
year for the herring season, in which they have a very
great share.' Buekhaven now is included in the fishery
district of Anstruther. At it are a Free church, a U. P.
church, and 2 public schools, Links and Madras, which,
with respective accommodation for 203 and 302 children,
had (1879) an average attendance of 129 and 170, and
grants of £103, 4s. and £116, 14s. Pop. (1841) 1526,
(1861) 1965, (1871) 2187, (1881) 2952.— Ord. Sur., sh.
40, 1867. See History of Buckhaven (priv. prin. 1813),
and an article in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Dec.
14, 1833, by the Fife poet, David Molyson.
Buckholmside, a part of Galashiels town in Melrose
parish, Roxburghshire, on the left bank of Gala Water.
It takes its name from Buckholm Hill (1064 feet), im-
mediately adjacent to it ; and it forms, both practically
and compactly, a large part of Galashiels.
Buckie, a burn and a hamlet in Alford parish, Aber-
deenshire. The burn runs in the central and eastern parts
of the parish to the Don. The hamlet adjoins the burn.
Buckie, a coast town in Kathven parish, Banffshire,
at the mouth of a burn of its own name, 7J miles NE
of Fochabers, 10J of Fochabers station, 1J ENE of
Portgordon, and 12J W by S of Portsoy. A bill, now
(1881) before Parliament, proposes to form between the
two last places, at a cost of £133,512, a branch of the
Great North of Scotland, 13J miles long, with inter-
mediate stations at Cullen, Portknockie, Findochty,
Portessie, and Buckie, and with a tunnel of 12S0 yards
near Cullen House. The burn divides the town into
Nether Buckie to the W, and Easter Buckie to the E,
the former dating from about 1650, the latter from 1723 ;
and at the eastern end of Easter Buckie is a handsome
square, the New Town. The 'largest purely fishing
village in Scotland,' Buckie has a post office under
Fochabers, with money order, savings' bank, insurance,
and telegraph departments, branches of the Aberdeen
Town and County, North of Scotland, and Union banks,
8 insurance agencies, gas-works, a lifeboat, a public read-
ing-room and library, a network, 3 rope and sail yards,
a tobacco factory, 3 oil works, and a large distillery at
Inchgower. A fair is held on the "Wednesday before
the third Tuesday of July old style. An Established
church, raised from a chapel of ease to quoad sacra
status in 1876, is about to be rebuilt ; a Free church,
Elizabethan in style, has a fine steeple ; All Saints'
Episcopal church, erected (1875-76) at a cost of £2000,
is a Decorated edifice, with nave, chancel, circular apse,
and a spire 96 feet high; a U.P. church was built in
1870, and St Peter's Roman Catholic church in 1857.
The public school, erected (1876) at a cost of £3392, is
an Early English pile, with square tower 60 feet high ;
and this, Mrs Gordon of Cluny's female industrial school,
and a Roman Catholic school, with respective accom-
modation for 600, 120, and 292 children, had (1879) an
average attendance of 366, 107, and 196, and grants of
£324, 16s., £93, 12s. 6d., and £184, 6s. The present
harbour, replacing one of IS 57, was constructed of con-
crete during 1874-80 at a cost of £60,000, defrayed by
the late Mr Gordon of Cluny, and, with an area of 9
acres and quayage of nearly half a mile, comprises an
outer and an inner basin. The latter, 4 acres in extent,
is 10 feet deep at low water, and thus has a greater
depth than any harbour to the N of Leith ; 40,000 cubic
yards of concrete were used in the entire work, for
which 115,000 cubic yards of rock had to be excavated,
and 15,000 of soft materials. In 1794 Buckie had only
19 sloops and fishing-boats of aggregately 122 tons ; in
1881 its fishing-craft number 333, of 3669 tons, em-
ploying 1320 men and boys, and valued at £51,321.
It also is head of the fishery district from Banff to
Findhorn, in which during 1879 there were cured 8207
barrels of white herring (5108 of them shipped to Baltic
and North Sea ports), besides 67,882 cod, ling, and
hake — taken by 8S7 boats of 18,808 tons ; the persons
employed being 3815 fishermen and boys, 18 fishcurers,
35 coopers, and 2597 others, and the total value of
198
BUITTLE
boats, nets, and lines being estimated at £147,100.
The Jahres-HdringsbericTit gives the Buckie herring catch
for the four years 1877-80 as 1320, 2975, 3800, and
12,957 crans. Pop. (1794) 703, (1841) 2165, (1861)
2798, (1871) 3803 — 1670 in Nether Buckie; (1881)
4268.— Ord. Sur., sh. 95, 1876. See pp. 316-320 of Jas.
Brown's Sound Table Club (Elgin, 1873).
Buckieburn, a hamlet in the SW of St Nlmans parish,
Stirlingshire, on a small burn at the foot of the Lennox
Hills, 4 miles WNW of Denny.
Buckie-Den, a beautifully romantic dell on the mutual
border of Lunan and Maryton parishes, Forfarshire, 4
miles SSW of Montrose. It has steep sides, in some
parts almost vertical, in most parts gemmed with shrubs
and flowers ; and it is traversed by a small rapid rill,
running to the sea, and leaping along in cataracts some-
times 20 or 30 feet high.
Buckinch, a quondam island in the river Clyde, within
Renfrew parish, Renfrewshire. It now forms part of the
lands of Scotstown.
Buckland, a burn in Kirkcudbright parish, Kirkcud-
brightshire. It is formed by the confluence of Balcred-
dan and Gribdie burns, in the vicinity of Bombie ; and
it runs, from the point of confluence, 2J miles south-
westward to the Dee below St Mary's Isle.
Bucklerhead, a hamlet in Murroes parish, Forfarshire.
Bucklyvie or Buchlyvie, a village on the W border of
Kippen parish, Stirlingshire, on a small burn, f mile
SE of the Forth and Clyde railway, and 4 NNE of
Balfron. A burgh of barony, it has a post office under
Stirling, a railway station, an Established church (1836 ;
quoad sacra since 1875), a Free church, a U.P. church
(1751), public waterworks (1870), and fairs on 26 June
and 18 Nov. A public school, with accommodation for
120 children, had (1879) an average attendance of S3,
and a grant of £74, Is. 7d. Pop. (1861) 339, (1871)
327, (1881) 319.
Buckny, a burn in Stormont district, Perthshire. Ris-
ing in the E of Logierait parish, it passes between the
mountains of Benachally (1594 feet) and Duchray(1670) ;
traverses, with impetuous current, a deep, narrow, rocky
dell, the Den of Riechip ; and, separating Caputh and
Clunie parishes, enters the latter in Laighwood park, and
there falls into the Lunan, after a course (SSE and E by
S) of 8£ miles.
Buck of Cabrach, a mountain on the mutual border
of Cabrach, Auchindoir, and Kildrummy parishes, Aber-
deenshire, 13 miles SW by S of Huntly. Rising 2368
feet above sea-level, it presents, to the N and E, a
pyramidal outline, tapering towards the top, and crowned
with a cluster of rocks looking like gigantic statuary ;
and, though 33 miles distant from the coast, is visible ; a
good way out at sea.
Buddo, a remarkable rock on the coast of St Andrews
parish, Fife, 3J miles ESE of St Andrews city.
Buddon, a burn of SE Forfarshire, rising in the NW
corner of Monifieth parish, and taking a generally SE
course of 5i miles, till it falls into the Firth of Tay, 3 J
miles E by N of Broughty Ferry. See Barky.
Bueinch, a wooded islet of Buchanan parish, Stirling-
shire, in Loch Lomond, 1 furlong NE of Inehcruin island,
and itself about 1 furlong long.
Buie, a burn in Ardchattan parish, Argyllshire, run-
ning about 3 miles to Loch Creran.
Buie or Buidhe, a loch on the mutual border of Criech
and Dornoch parishes, SE Sutherland, 7 A miles NNE of
Bonar-Bridge station. Lying 527 feet above sea-level,
it is 1J mile long by \ broad, contains good trout, and
is gained by salmon by means of a remarkable ladder on
the Carnach river.
Builg, a loch in Kiukmichael parish, S Banffshire,
close to the Aberdeenshire border, 3 miles S of Inchrory.
Lying 1586 feet above sea-level, at the NE base of Ben
Avon, it has an extreme length and breadth of f and J
mile, abounds in trout and char, and sends off a burn to
the river Aven. The Queen beheld it ' beautifully lit
up by the setting sun,' 5 Sept. 1860.
Buittle, a coast parish of Kirkcudbrightshire, which,
reaching NW to within a mile of Castle-Douglas, and E