18-523: St Fergus is a village in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire , Scotland. St Fergus lies 1 mile (1.6 km) from the North Sea coast and 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Peterhead . The Parish of St Fergus includes the remains of Inverugie Castle and Ravenscraig Castle. The church in the village was built in 1763. The church for this parish previously stood in the old kirkyard near the shore 2 miles (3 km) to
36-414: A landmine. Two other soldiers were also injured. On 26 March 1946, Lance Corporal Reginald Wallis, age 26, and Corporal John Wood, age 23, of 11 Bomb Disposal company were killed whilst clearing landmines from the area. Corporal Wood stepped on the mine detonating it. During mine clearing operations by 11th Company Bomb Disposal, a British Empire Medal was awarded to Sgt Robert Husband. Sgt Husband assisted
54-489: A large royal forest for hunting. Formartine lay between two areas within the Earldom of Buchan : Ellon to the north east, which was the caput of the earldom, and the detached area of Bethelnie (now Oldmeldrum ) to the south west. Some time between 1292 and 1296 John de Balliol , then King of Scotland, alienated the thanage to John Comyn, Earl of Buchan , as compensation for Comyn's renunciation of his claim to part of
72-474: A major oil industry service centre. Equally important is the nearby gas terminal at St Fergus . Remote Radar Head Buchan , a RAF air defence radar unit, is located near Peterhead. Attempts are being made to counter the negative effects of several recent key company closures and economic threats. Inland, the area is dependent upon agriculture, and many villages have seen a decline in population and services. Issues affecting Banff and Buchan also apply here, as does
90-466: A platoon officer dealing with mines that had fallen down a cliff when rough weather caused a bank of sand to collapse. The St Fergus Gas Terminal situated to the north of the village, began operating in 1977 and was officially opened on 9 May 1978. The terminal consists of plants operated by a number of different oil and gas companies, and processes up to 60 million m (2.1 billion cu ft) of North Sea gas per day, amounting to 15% of
108-583: Is a committee area in Aberdeenshire , Scotland. This district extends north from the River Don to the River Ythan . It has a population of 36,478 (2001 Census). The committee area was formed in 1996 from part of the former district of Banff and Buchan . Formartine has experienced rapid population growth, particularly around Ellon and Oldmeldrum , and in the south east where development has spread outwith
126-659: Is a reference in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba to the death of King Indulf at the hands of Vikings in Buchan in 962, a death separately recorded in a 12th-century king-list as taking place at Cullen . Cullen is to the west of the River Deveron, in an area where the Earls of Buchan held land as late as the 13th century, suggesting that Buchan's boundaries at this time extended as far west as
144-457: Is known as Formartine , so Buchan has taken on a restricted sense. The Buchan area has a population of 39,160 (2001 census) and an area of 547 km . It contains the town of Peterhead and is adjacent to the committee and administrative areas of Banff and Buchan and Formartine . Peterhead is the largest town in Buchan and Aberdeenshire; the principal whitefish-landing port in Europe; and
162-604: The Diocese of Aberdeen . This would have valued the thanage in 1266 at £96 13s 4d, though by the time of the Alexander III rental this had increased to £106 13s 4d. The thanage's origins probably lay as one of the shires within the province of Buchan that paid tribute to the King of Alba rather than the Mormaer of Buchan . The thanage had its main centre at Fyvie , and it included
180-517: The Lordship of Galloway , Balliol's ancestral lordship. This effectively extended the bounds of the Earldom southward, though the burgh and castle of Fyvie remained in crown hands. The thanage must later have been escheated and returned to crown hands, as between 1341 and 1346 David II granted half of Formartine to his sister Margaret and her husband William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland , and
198-650: The River Spey . In Pictish times, Buchan was located within the kingdom of Ce . There is considerable ancient history in this geographic area, especially slightly northwest of Cruden Bay , where the Catto Long Barrow and numerous tumuli are found. At one time, the district of Buchan comprised all the land between the Don and Deveron, but now the land between the Don and the Ythan
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#1733084759602216-566: The United Kingdom gas demand. The town is served by buses between Fraserburgh and Aberdeen (via Peterhead). Buchan Buchan / ˈ b ʌ x ən / is a coastal district in the north-east of Scotland , bounded by the Ythan and Deveron rivers. It was one of the original provinces of the Kingdom of Alba . It is now one of the six committee areas of Aberdeenshire . The genesis of
234-477: The city of Aberdeen. By contrast, the area around Turriff retains strong dependency on the traditional agricultural economy. The area's coastline and rural environment offer recreation potential including the Formartine and Buchan Way . Formartine is first documented as a thanage in 1266, when Reginald Cheyne is recorded holding it in feu-ferm and liable for 14 1 ⁄ 2 merks as 2nd teinds payable to
252-475: The east. This site on the St Fergus Links is still used as a burial ground. Prior to the change in site of the church the parish was known as Longley and at a still more remote period Inverugie. Historically, the 9,000 acres (3,600 ha) of St Fergus parish formed a detached portion of Banffshire. The parish was transferred to Aberdeenshire in 1891. At that time it had a population of 1,527. The beach area
270-529: The future of the oil and gas industry. Part of Buchan benefits from EU aid coverage. Opportunities exist through the Buchan Local Action Plan to safeguard and enhance the economic future of Peterhead and Buchan. The Formartine and Buchan Way runs through Buchan. 57°31′N 2°00′W / 57.52°N 2.00°W / 57.52; -2.00 Formartine Formartine ( Scottish Gaelic : Fearann Mhàrtainn meaning "Martin's land")
288-484: The name Buchan is shrouded in uncertainty, but may be of Pictish origin. The name may involve an equivalent of Welsh buwch meaning "a cow". American academic Thomas Clancy has noted cautiously the similarity between the territory names Buchan and Marr to those of the Welsh commotes Cantref Bychan and Cantref Mawr , meaning "small" and "large commote" respectively. The first documentary record of Buchan
306-451: The other half to another of his sisters Matilda and her husband Thomas Isaac. Formartine reverted again to the crown in 1373 on the death of the Earl of Sutherland, and was granted in 1377 to John, Earl of Carrick , the heir to the throne, and then in 1382 as a barony to James Lindsay, the son of David Lindsay of Crawford , and Carrick compensated with a £100 per year annuity . The district has
324-541: Was classed as a risk during WW2 as a possible landing area for a German invasion. Several pillboxes and anti-tank blocks were placed along the coast. These formed part of the Rattray stop line. Anti-tank ditches are still visible today. A minefield was laid on St Fergus links and Craigwan sands. On 30 November 1941, 11-year-old John Paul, 12-year-old James Reekie and Corporal Ronald Cumbley of the Royal Engineers were killed by
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