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  2. Wester Ross - Wikipedia

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    Wester Ross (Scottish Gaelic: Ros an Iar) is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland.The area is loosely defined, and has never been used as a formal administrative region in its own right, [2] but is generally regarded as lying to the west of the main watershed of Ross (the eastern part of Ross being Easter Ross), thus forming the western half of the ...

  3. Wester Ross Supergroup - Wikipedia

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    The Wester Ross Supergroup is one of the subdivisions of the Neoproterozoic sequence of sedimentary rocks (or their metamorphic equivalents) in the Scottish Highlands.It lies unconformably on medium to high-grade metamorphic rocks and associated igneous rocks of the Archaean and Paleoproterozoic age Lewisian complex or locally over the Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Stoer Group. [1]

  4. Gairloch - Wikipedia

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    Gairloch (/ ˈ ɡ ɛər l ɒ x / GAIR-lokh; Scottish Gaelic: Geàrrloch [ˈkʲaːrˠl̪ˠɔx], meaning "Short Loch") is a village, civil parish and community on the shores of Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, in the North-West Highlands of Scotland.

  5. Loch Ewe - Wikipedia

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    Loch Ewe (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Iùbh) is a sea loch in the region of Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.The shores are inhabited by a traditionally Gàidhlig-speaking people [1] living in or sustained by crofting villages, [2] the most notable of which, situated on the north-eastern shore, is the Aultbea settlement.

  6. Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh (ward) - Wikipedia

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    The Highland Council election, 2007: Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count SNP: Jean Urquhart: 1,486 26.1 1 1 Liberal Democrats: Biz Campbell: 1,242 21.8 2 1 Independent: Richard Greene: 792 13.9 3 7 Independent: Audrey Sinclair: 608 10.7 4 9 Conservative: John Scott 451 7.9 Labour: Christine Conniff 354 6.2 ...

  7. Inverpolly - Wikipedia

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    Inverpolly is the name given to a large area of northern Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, north of Ullapool. The area contains several prominent hills, rising up from a rough landscape of bogs and lochans .

  8. Melvaig - Wikipedia

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    Melvaig is a crofting township on the coast of western Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The houses are largely on a raised shoreline in Wester Ross and are scattered on the crofts into which the land was divided in 1846. While, in the past, the houses were closely linked to the associated crofts ...

  9. Rua Reidh Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    The name "Rua Reidh" is a semi-anglicisation of "Rubha Rèidh" meaning a flat headland. A lighthouse on Rubh'Re Point was first proposed by David Stevenson in 1853. . Building was started by his son, David Alan Stevenson in 1908 and the light was first lit on 15 January