Old Photograph Crofter With Highland Cattle In Wester Ross Scotland

Old photograph of a Crofter with Highland Cattle in Wester Ross, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Applecross Wester Ross Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Applecross, Wester Ross, Scotland. The row of cottages which is often referred to as Applecross, and is marked as Applecross on some maps, is actually called Shore Street and is referred to locally just as The Street. The name Applecross applies to all the settlements around the peninsula, including Toscaig, Culduie, Camusterrach, Milltown, Sand, Lonbain and many others. Applecross is also the name of the local estate and the civil parish, which includes Shieldaig and Torridon, and has a population of 544. The small River Applecross flows into the bay at Applecross.





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Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Wester Ross Scotland

Old photograph of a thatched cottage in Wester Ross, Scotland. Loosely speaking, thatching is the use of straw or grasses as a building material.

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Old Photograph Sheep Shearing Wester Ross Scotland

Old photograph of shepherds sheep shearing in Wester Ross, North West Highlands, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Gairloch Video

Tour Scotland video of Gairloch, Scotland. A small village on the shores of Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scotland. Song is May It Be by Celtic Woman.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Mellon Udrigle Beach Wester Ross

Tour Scotland photograph of Mellon Udrigle Beach, Wester Ross, Scotland. Mellon Udrigle, Scottish Gaelic: Meallan Ùdraigil or Na Meall, meaning the sand dunes of Udrigle, is a small remote area on the north west coast of old Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands. From the spectacular beach at Mellon Udrigle there are wonderful views across the sea to Assynt, Coigach and the Summer Isles.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Loch Osgaig

Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Osgaig, Achiltibuie, by Ullapool, Wester Ross, Scotland.

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Street View Inverkirkaig Scotland

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Street view of Inverkirkaig beach, from the narrow single track road from Achiltibuie to Lochinver, Wester Ross, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Little Gruinard Beach Wester Ross

Tour Scotland photograph of Little Gruinard Beach, Gruinard Bay, Wester Ross, Scotland. Gruinard Bay is located 12 miles north of Poolewe. The Bay has a number of settlements, mainly located on the eastern shore of the bay. On the southeast corner, the small hamlet of Little Gruinard is located, where the similar named river leaves land. On the western coast, the former fishing village of Laide, in the nook where the coast turns north, overlooks Gruinard Island to the northeast. Further up the west coast, the villages of Achgarve, the main village of Mellon Udrigle and the smaller crofting township of Opinan have a commanding view of the bay and Gruinard island.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Beinn Alligin

Tour Scotland photograph of Beinn Alligin, Upper Loch Torridon, Wester Ross, Scotland. One of the classic mountains of the Torridon region of Scotland, lying to the north of Loch Torridon, in the Scottish Highlands. The name Beinn Alligin is from the Scottish Gaelic, meaning Jewelled Hill. The mountain has two peaks of Munro status: Tom na Gruagaich to the South, and Sgùrr Mhòr to the North.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Liathach

Tour Scotland photograph of Liathach, Loch Clair, Wester Ross, Scotland. Liathach is one of the most famous of the Torridon Hills in the North West Highlands. The mountain is composed of Torridonian sandstone which forms massive near-horizontal strata. They form the numerous terraces that are obvious from afar. The rocks are mainly red and chocolate sandstones, arkoses, flagstones and shales with coarse conglomerates locally at the base.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Little Loch Broom

Tour Scotland photograph of Little Loch Broom, Wester Ross, Scotland. Little Loch Broom is separated from Loch Broom by the Scoraig peninsula between 2 and 4 miles wide commencing in Caileach Head. The loch is 9.5 miles long, orientated in a south eastward direction, similar to Loch Broom, and has a mean breadth of 1 mile. Two rivers flow into Little Loch Broom; the Allt Airdeasaidh empties into the Loch at Ardessie Falls and Dundonnell River, which rises in the Dundonnell forest 3 miles sout heast of the loch and the innumerable small lochs and rivers that are in the forest. Wester Ross is featured in the lyrics to the song Letter from America by The Proclaimers, and Kishorn Commandos by North Sea Gas. Major outdoor scenes in the films Stardust and The Eagle of the Ninth were shot in Wester Ross. Wester Ross is also the location for the adventures of John Macnab in the book by John Buchan.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Shieldaig

Tour Scotland photograph of Shieldaig, Wester Ross, Scotland. The village was founded in 1800 with a view to training up seamen for war against Napoleon, but after his, initial, defeat and exile to Elba, the community found itself a new role as a fishing village.



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Photograph Lonbain Scotland

Photograph of Lonbain, Wester Ross, Scotland. Lonbain is a ruined Highland clearance village.

Tour Scotland Photograph Applecross Bay

Tour Scotland photograph of Applecross Bay, Wester Ross, Scotland. Extremely isolated, Applecross was only accessible by boat until the early 20th century.

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Tour Scotland Photograph The Street Applecross Wester Ross

Tour Scotland photograph of The Street, Applecross, Wester Ross, Scotland. This row of houses which is often referred to as Applecross, and is in fact marked as Applecross on some maps, is actually called Shore Street and is referred to locally just as The Street. The road to Applecross, the Pass of the Cattle, is popular with motor cyclists.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Applecross Wester Ross

Tour Scotland photograph of Applecross, Wester Ross, Scotland. Remote Scottish village on the Inner Sound on the west side of the Applecross peninsula between Loch Kishorn and Loch Torridon.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Sgurr a'Gharaidh Lochcarron

Tour Scotland photograph Sgurr a'Gharaidh, Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Scotland. Sgurr a'Gharaidh is the highest point of the rugged terrain to the north of Lochcarron. Loch Carron is a sea loch on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, which separates the Lochalsh peninsula from the Applecross peninsula, and from the headland east of Loch Kishorn. It is the point at which the River Carron enters the North Atlantic.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Fishing Boat Plockton

Tour Scotland photograph of a small fishing boat on the shore at Plockton, Wester Ross, Scotland. Plockton is a settlement on the shores of Loch Carron. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Pass of the Cattle Wester Ross

Tour Scotland photograph of the Pass of the Cattle, Wester Ross, Scotland. The Bealach na Ba, Gaelic for, Pass of the Cattle, is a famous, twisting, single track mountain road, rising to over two thousand feet in the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross. It is one of very few roads in the Scottish Highlands with gradients approaching 20%. It boasts the greatest ascent of any road climb in the United Kingdom. The road was featured in several episodes of the television series Hamish Macbeth, in which it is pictured as having a roadsign indicating: " Narrow road, no more than three sheep abreast ".



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