Welcome to Burghead and Cummingston Community Council

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Burghead is a small fishing town  situated on a promontory jutting into the Moray Firth. The largest Pictish fort in Scotland occupied this site in the fourth century. A number of incised Pictish stones bearing the carved symbol of a bull have been found in the locality.

The beach stretches five miles westward towards Findhorn and is popular with holiday makers. Burghead harbour is now used by fishing boats, pleasure craft, and timber vessels. The harbour is lined with stone built granaries from which the grain from the fields of the Laich of Moray was loaded into sea vessels in the days when sea transport was faster, cheaper and safer than land transport.

Cummingston is the first village you enter if travelling eastward towards Hopeman and Lossiemouth.

Burghead Well The origin and the age of the well are obscure though it is an impressive monument of great antiquity, a high chamber hewn from living rock and containing a pool of water which has been variously described as a well for baptistry. Open at all reasonable times. Key Keeper: Mrs Main, 69 King Street.

Admission free.

Dolphins are often seen from Burghead and surrounding areas. Other attractions in and around Burghead and Cummingston are: bowling, children's play area, walks along the shore and through the woods and local countryside. There are a few eating out places in Burghead itself and several more in the surrounding districts.

Golf courses can be found within a few miles of Burghead at Hopeman and Kinloss.

In Burghead every year on the 11th January the Clavie, a burning barrel of tar, is carried in procession through the village in enthusiastic celebration of the old-style New Year, finally being placed on a pedestal known as the Clavie Stone on the Doorie Hill. Tradition has it that possession of a piece of the burning Clavie brings good luck during the coming year.