Buxburn, a Donside hamlet in Newhills parish, Aberdeenshire, with a station on the Great North of Scotland, 4 miles NW of Aberdeen. At it are corn and paper mills, a public school, and St Machar's Episcopal church (1880; 300 sittings; cost, £1800), a cruciform Transition edifice. See Auchmill.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)