Old Photographs Of Plockton Highlands Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Plockton, Scottish Gaelic: Am Ploc Loch Aillse, a village on the shores of Loch Carron in the Highlands in Lochalsh, Wester Ross. Most of the houses date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The television series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh. Plockton was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries television series. The Church of Scotland in the village, also used by the Free Church of Scotland, was designed by Thomas Telford. The railway station was built by the Kyle of Lochalsh Extension of the Highland Railway between Stromeferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, opening on 2 November 1897. The station building was built by the Highland Railway, and designed by engineer Murdoch Paterson. Duncraig Castle near Plockton was built in 1866 for Alexander Matheson, a Scottish businessman and Member of Parliament. It was built in the Scottish Baronial style, to designs by Alexander Ross.

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