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OS grid reference
  
NJ444657

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
AB56

Local time
  
Saturday 3:13 AM

Council area
  
UK parliament constituency
  
Country
  
Post town
  
BUCKIE

Police
  
Dialling code
  
01542

Scottish parliament
  
Lieutenancy areas
  
Rathven

Weather
  
4°C, Wind SW at 13 km/h, 64% Humidity

Rathven (Scots: Raffin) is an ecclesiastical parish, village and former civil parish in the historic county of Banff, now in Moray, Scotland. The civil parish was last used as a census subdivision in 2001 when the population was 12,378, The former burgh of Buckie is the largest settlement in the parish, which also includes Findochty and Portknockie.

Contents

Map of Rathven, Buckie, UK

Churches

The Roman Catholic St Peter's Church is in the town of Buckie. It is sometimes inaccurately referred to as a cathedral. St Gregory's Church, Preshome and St Ninian's Church, Tynet are served from here. The church was built in 1851-7 to a design by Bishop James Kyle and Alexander and William Reid. In 1907 the chancel, altar and baptistry were altered by Charles Jean Ménart, who also designed St Aloysius Church, Glasgow.

Notable people

The Addison family in Rathven can be traced back to the 17th century and this branch includes the Canadian-Czech philanthropist, Vincent Peter Addison (d. 2007) and the travel writer, David M. Addison whose latest work "Confessions of a Banffshire Loon" contains much information about the Addisons of Rathven as well as the Addisons of nearby Portknockie where Joseph Addison was the first Provost. There are also a couple of chapters on the Gordons of Letterfourie who were the lairds of Rathven.

References

Rathven Wikipedia


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