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

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.
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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.
- 01Bayview 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 - 02Macduff'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
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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 → Buckhaven83 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Buckhaven124 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
- Aberdeen → Buckhaven122 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Buckhaven – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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