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Laich of Moray

coastal plain in Moray, Scotland, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ6473734 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Laich of Moray or Laigh of Moray (locally: Laich o' Moray) (Scottish Gaelic: Machair Mhoireibh) is the rich agricultural coastal plain in Moray. Laich is a Scots word meaning Low-lying land. The generally accepted area covered by the term Laich of Moray is from Fochabers to Brodie and also includes the towns of Elgin, Forres, Lossiemouth, Burghead, Hopeman and Lhanbryde.

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The public source identifies “Laich of Moray” as coastal plain in Moray, Scotland, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Laich, Moray and coastal.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Laich, Moray and coastal providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Laich of Moray” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.