Blackburn is a rapidly growing village northwest of Aberdeen, Scotland, and is situated in Aberdeenshire.

Blackburn is part of the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine county constituency for UK Parliament elections.

Located 8.5 miles (14km) WNW of Aberdeen and 92 miles (150km) NNE of Edinburgh, Blackburn is a village just north of Backhill Wood where small streams form and join into Black burn from which the village takes its name.

Kinellar Community Centre was opened by The Princess Royal[citation needed] on 2 March 2005.

[3] Blackburn AFC, formed in 1947, is an Aberdeenshire AFA Division Two (East) team.