The Moray district had been formed by combining the local government county of Moray, except Grantown-on-Spey and Cromdale areas, with Aberlour, Buckie, Cullen, Dufftown, Findochty, Keith and Portknockie areas of the county of Banff. The Grantown-on-Spey and Cromdale areas had been combined with Kingussie and Badenoch areas of the county of Inverness to form the Badenoch and Strathspey district of the Highland region.

Aberlour is the name of a place in Moray, Scotland, 12 miles south of Elgin on the road to Grantown. A burn (stream), a tributary of the River Spey, and surrounding parish, are both named Aberlour, but the name is most commonly used in reference to the village which straddles the stream and flanks the Spey -- although the full name of the village is Charlestown of Aberlour. The village has a population estimated in 2006 at 1092, after recent growth incurred by development of new housing.

Elgin is a former cathedral city and a former Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland and is the administrative and commercial centre for Moray. The town originated to the south of the River Lossie on the higher ground above the flood plain.

Lossiemouth is a town in Moray, Scotland. Originally the port belonging to Elgin, it became an important and innovative fishing town. Although there has been over a 1,000 years of settlement in the area, the present day town was formed over the past 250 years and consists of four separate communities that eventually merged into one.

Dufftown is located on the River Fiddich and is the location of several Scotch whisky distilleries. It produces more malt whisky than any other town in Scotland; in fact, a signpost on the way into Dufftown declares it the "Whisky Capital of the World". The largest and best known of the many surrounding distilleries is the Glenfiddich distillery that distills Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky.

Burghead is a small town in Moray, Scotland. The town is mainly built on a Peninsula which projects north-westward into the Moray Firth, meaning that most of the village has sea on 3 sides. The present town was built between 1805 and 1809, destroying in the process more than half of the site of an important Pictish hill fort.

Hopeman is a small, seaside village in Moray, Scotland, on the coast of the Moray Firth; The population is around 1000 people in approximately 670 households. Hopeman has 2 beaches. The West beach is the smaller of the two. It is part of the Station Caravan Park which is only a few metres away. It is topped by dunes. The East beach is larger and is surrounded by large, grassy sand dunes. The beach is quiet with little tourists. Both Beaches are sandy, but have some rocky beach areas.

Forres is a town and former royal burgh situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 30 miles east of Inverness. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions[1]. There are many geographical and historical attractions nearby such as the River Findhorn, there are also many historical artifacts and monuments within the town itself.

Buckie is a burgh town on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland in Moray. The 2001 census records the population of Buckie as 8,059. Buckie was the largest town in Banffshire by some thousands of inhabitants before regionalisation in 1975 removed that political division from the map of Scotland. The town is the third largest in the Moray Council area that was created in 1996 after Elgin and Forres.

Keith, also known as 'the friendly town' according to the signs as you enter Keith by road, is a small town in the northeast of Scotland with a population of around 5,000. It is part of the Moray council area, but was historically (until 1975) in Banffshire