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    Burghead (Scots: Burgheid or The Broch, Scottish Gaelic: Am Broch) is a small town in Moray, Scotland, about 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Elgin. The town...
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    Burghead Fort was a Pictish promontory fort on the site now occupied by the small town of Burghead in Moray, Scotland. It was one of the earliest power...
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    The Burghead Bulls are a group of carved Pictish stones from the site of Burghead Fort in Moray, Scotland, each featuring an incised image of a bull....
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    The Burghead transmitting station is a broadcasting facility near Burghead (grid reference NJ125685) in Scotland for long wave and medium wave radio transmission...
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    HMS Burghead Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Burghead Bay in Morayshire. The ship was originally ordered...
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    Burghead was a railway station serving Burghead in the Scottish district of Moray (formerly Elginshire). Initially the station was the terminus of the...
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    neighbouring county of Banffshire to the east: From the county of Moray Burghead burgh Duffus and Drainie district Elgin burgh Elgin district Fochabers...
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    Larger, but not large, settlements existed around royal forts, such as at Burghead Fort, or associated with religious foundations. No towns are known in Scotland...
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  • later that she is a physicist at the site of the new fusion reactor in Burghead. Elizabeth Muir, another close friend of Sir Charles, works there as well...
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    the villages Hopeman, Burghead, Cummingston and Duffus. The feeder primaries are Hythehill, St. Gerardine's, Hopeman and Burghead. There are over around...
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    ceremony." Retrieved 3 January 2008. "The Burning of the Clavie, Burghead Moray". Burghead Visitor Centre. Retrieved 17 May 2021. "Dictionaries of the Scots...
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    Foreign Office instructions to the contrary, he boarded the frigate HMS Burghead Bay and, with an accompanying detachment of marines, escorted the John...
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    transmitter, which together with the two Scottish long-wave transmitters at Burghead and Westerglen forms a network broadcasting on the same frequency. The...
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  • Burghead Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football team, based in Burghead, Moray. Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they currently...
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    south. Notable features of the coast are Findhorn Bay and the broad arc of Burghead Bay. The coast around Lossiemouth is somewhat rockier, and includes the...
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    transmission in a synchronised group with the transmitters at Droitwich and Burghead on the same frequency (until 1989 200 kHz, now 198 kHz). This mast is of...
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    the early Middle Ages in Europe, England, (6th–7th centuries) One of the Burghead Bulls, Pictish stone relief from northeast Scotland, (7th–8th centuries)...
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  • Stoneywood Parkvale Sunnybank Banks O' Dee Juniors Banchory St Ternan Burghead Thistle Cruden Bay Deveronside Dufftown Forres Thistle Glentanar Hall Russell...
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  • Cummingston railway station stood on the Burghead and Hopeman Branch of the Highland Railway and once served the small village of Cummingston, formerly...
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    Bull Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume, North Ayrshire Burghead Bull, Burghead Townhead, Galloway Ballochmyle cup and ring marks Petroglyphs from...
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    Alves 23 mi 21 chains (37.4 km) 25 March 1858 3 May 1965 Junction for Burghead and Hopeman branch. Kinloss 27 mi 8 chains (43.6 km) 25 March 1858 3 May...
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  • Oidhche Challainn in Glenfinnan. Also in Scotland, the coastal town of Burghead in Morayshire celebrates the eve of the Old New Year with "The Burning...
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  • Pinnata Castra was located just to the east of Burghead. A precursor of the later Pictish fort at Burghead itself remains a strong candidate for the site...
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  • This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Burghead in Moray, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX...
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  • Deaners, Offers Fraserburgh Brochers, not to be confused with people from Burghead Frodsham Jowie Heads (from old Runcorn area Cheshire meaning turnip, reference...
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    Fraserburgh which is known as "The Broch". In 1716 The Broch was Burghead. The harbour at Burghead was ruined by the sea just before then. 1716 is also the year...
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    administrative area of Moray. The station was the junction where the line to Burghead and Hopeman diverged from the line from Aberdeen to Inverness. Opened by...
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    while, for example, six stones with the single symbol of a bull found at Burghead Fort suggest that this represented the place itself, or its owners, despite...
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    easily identified, one being Morven and the other being Scaraben. From Burghead, the white mass of Dunrobin Castle can just be made out in the distance...
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    and Inverness, and whose primary centre of royal power probably lay at Burghead, which was three times larger than any other enclosed site in Early Medieval...
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