Cullen

Cullen, a fishing-town of Banffshire, on the Moray Firth, 67 miles NW. of Aberdeen by railway (1885). Backed by the conical Bin Hill (1050 feet), it has a harbour formed in 1817-34, and a cruciform parish church, which was founded by Robert Bruce, whose second queen died here, and which in 1543 was made collegiate. Cullen House, a seat of the Earl of Seafield, is a Scottish baronial pile, enlarged and remodelled in 1861. Cullen has been a royal burgh since about 1200, and unites with Elgin and five other places to return one member to parliament. Pop. (1841) 1423; (1891) 2100.