Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Beauly (/ ˈ b juː l i / ⓘ BEW-lee; from French beau lieu ' beautiful place '; Scottish Gaelic: A' Mhanachainn) is a village in Scotland's Highland area, on the River Beauly, 12 miles (19 km) west of Inverness by the Far North railway line. The town is historically within Kilmorack Parish of the County of Inverness.
Culloden (/ k ə ˈ l ɒ d ən / [2] listen ⓘ; from Scottish Gaelic Cùl Lodain, "back of the small pond"; modern Gaelic Cùil Lodair) is a village three miles (five kilometres) east of Inverness, Scotland and the surrounding area. 3 mi (5 km) east of the village is Drumossie Moor, [3] site of the Battle of Culloden.
This is a link page for cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, including townships or urban centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and other major urban areas. Cities are shown in bold ; see City status in Ireland for an independent list.
This page was last edited on 24 November 2023, at 15:47 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
On 7 September 1921, the first British Cabinet meeting to be held outside London took place in the Inverness Town House, when David Lloyd George, on holiday in Gairloch, called an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Ireland. The Inverness Formula composed at this meeting was the basis of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. [35]
The golden retriever was first bred in Guisachan, an historic settlement adjacent to the village of Tomich, near the now ruinous mansion by Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A statue to commemorate the breed's founding was erected in August 2014 by Friends of Guisachan, [ 3 ] a US-based organisation of golden retriever lovers.
The IV postcode area, also known as the Inverness postcode area, [2] is a group of 52 postcode districts for post towns: Achnasheen, Alness, Avoch, Beauly, Bonar ...
Tornagrain lies 1 mile (2 km) southeast of Inverness Airport, and 2 miles (3 km) east of Castle Stuart. In 2009, the Moray Estate submitted designs to planning authorities for a new community of more than 10,000 residents near the old hamlet [1] of Tornagrain. [2] Planning permission was granted for the building of 5,000 homes in September 2012 ...