Macduff

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Macduff

Total population

3,791

Coordinates57.67°, -2.49°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Macduff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Banff across the estuary of the River Deveron. Macduff is a former burgh and was the last place in the United Kingdom where deep-water wooden fishing boats were built.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Sandi Thom

Scottish singer

George Washington Wilson

Scottish painter and photographer (1823-1893)

M. E. Grant Duff

Scottish politician, administrator and author (1829-1906)

Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald

British politician and general (1852-1935)

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William Grant Craib

British botanist (1882–1933)

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Christopher Collier

English cricketer (1886-1916)

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Derek McKay

Footballer (1948-2008)

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Doris Grant

British nutritionist and inventor (1905–2003)

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Erling Walderhaug

Norwegian politician

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Fergus Gordon Kerr

British theologian

George Duff

Royal Navy officer

George Horne Russell

Canadian painter (1861-1933)

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George Taylor

Scottish football player (1937–1950) and coach

James Grant Duff

British soldier and historian (1789–1858)

Henry Robertson

British politician (1816–1888)

James McManus

Scottish-Australian rugby league footballer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Scotland

• Bridgend
  7.6 mi away
• Arradoul
  17.7 mi away
• Aultmore
  20.1 mi away
• Torry
  22.7 mi away
• Dipple
  24 mi away
• Chapelhall Cottages
  26.4 mi away
• Whiterashes
  27.1 mi away
• Tillery
  29 mi away
• Edinville
  31.2 mi away
• Rosevalley
  31.8 mi away
• Achath
  33.3 mi away
• Aryburn
  34.1 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Macduff

Banff and Macduff

Banff (Scotland). Town Council. · 1960

Macduff Harbour Revision Order 1999

Scotland · 2000

Macduff

Ordnance Survey · 1975

Banff, Macduff, Portsoy, Turriff street plan

R. P. A. Smith · 2004

Doune Kirkyard, MacDuff (Parish of Gamrie)

Aberdeen and Northeast Scotland Family History Society · 2009

MACRABADABRA MacDUFF and His MAGIC SPORRAN

Alasdair Carnegie · 2015

Rails to Banff, Macduff and Oldmeldrum

Duncan McLeish · 2014

Banff, Macduff and Turriff

Ordnance Survey · 2002

Search results from Open Library.

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