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Buckhaven

Buckhaven is a town on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth between East Wemyss and Methil.

Buckhaven
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The place

Buckhaven is a town on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth between East Wemyss and Methil. Buckhaven is on the Fife Coastal Path, and near to Wemyss Caves and Largo Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buckhaven

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bayview Stadium

    Bayview Stadium is a football stadium in the Scottish town of Methil, Fife. It is home to East Fife.

    2.3 km · stadium in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Macduff's Castle

    MacDuff's Castle is a ruined castle near East Wemyss, in Fife, Scotland. The site is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife, the most powerful family in Fife in the Middle Ages, although nothing survives from this period.

    2.4 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Buckhaven

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 33 km · Glasgow (GLA), 94 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 122 km
Stations
Cameron Bridge railway station, 1.9 km · Leven railway station, 2.4 km
  • Glasgow → Buckhaven
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Buckhaven
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
  • Aberdeen → Buckhaven
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buckhaven

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Buckhaven. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    147 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    151 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    175 km
  4. 04
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    222 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    224 km

If you know how people move in Buckhaven – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Buckhaven

Buckhaven is 27 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Methiltown in Fife, Scotland, UK900 m
  • Levenseaside town in Fife, Scotland, UK3 km
  • Kennowayvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.8 km
  • East Wemysstown in Fife, Scotland, UK2.8 km
  • Windygatesvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.2 km
  • ScoonieScottish parish in Fife, Scotland, UK3.7 km