CULLEN, royal and municipal burgh, Banffshire, Scotland. Pop. (1931) 1,688. It is situated on Cullen Bay, III- m. W. by N. of Banff and 664 m. N.W of Aberdeen by the L.N.E.R. Desk ford Burn, after a course of 71 m., enters the sea at Cullen, which it divides into two parts, Seatown, the older, and Newtown, dating only from 1822, the old town having been pulled down to extend the grounds of Cullen House. St. Mary's, the parish church, a cruciform structure, was founded by Robert Bruce, whose second wife died at Cullen. The harbour, constructed be tween 1817 and 1834, though artificial, is one of the best on this coast. Fish is exported. About I m. to the S. is Cullen House, a seat of the earl of Seafield, which contains some fine works of art. A mile and a half to the west is the picturesque fishing village of Port Knockie, made a police burgh in 1912, with a deep-sea harbour, built in 1891. On the cliffs, 2 M. to the E., stand the ruins of Findlater Castle, fortified in