B9019 (Buckie - Portknockie)

This article is about the original B9019 from Buckie to Portknockie, now A942.
For the recently defunct B9019 in Portsoy, see B9019.

The original B9019 was a coastal road in Banffshire.

Portessie

The road started at an end-on junction with the A942 at Ianstown, east of Buckie. The exact spot is difficult to pick out - but it seems to be at the point where the straight Rathburn Street crosses a stream and bends to the left at the eastern end of the harbour area. The route then followed the coast via Findochty to Portknockie, where it took a roundabout route through town, apparently following Harbour Road, then either Patrol Road or Commercial Road before returning south along New Street or Park Street. Moray Council lists Commercial Road, New Street and Bridge Street as C106L, which may be a relic of the former B9109 route, and the yellow line on 1-inch Seventh Series maps reflects this. However, current OS mapping shows the yellow route following Patrol Road and Admiralty Street. Whichever route was taken, it would have involved an awkward zig-zag at the western end of Church Street, which does beg the question of how accurate the MOT map, which is the only source for this routing, is. From Portknockie it ran inland to meet the A98.

Within ten years of its initial classification in 1922–3, the route had been upgraded to Class I status, becoming an extension of the A942, and the number has since been recycled. In the intervening years the original route through Findochty has been partially destroyed, with the remainder accessing The Steadings housing estate, with the A942 rerouted through a cutting and crossing the former railway alignment at a shallow angle, to remove several right-angle bends and a railway bridge. In Portknockie the original roundabout route has been shortened by using Church Street, and the western part of the old road has become an extension of the B9021.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Buckie (Ianstown) - Findochty - Portknockie - Cullen