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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.
Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross; Aboyne, Aberdeenshire; Achfary, Highland; Alness, Highland; Altnaharra, Highland; Applecross, Highland; Arisaig, Highland; Ardlui ...
In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.
Killin (/ ˌ k ɪ l ˈ ɪ n /; Scottish Gaelic: Cill Fhinn) is a village in Perthshire in the central Highlands of Scotland. Situated at the western head of Loch Tay, it is administered by the Stirling Council area. Killin is a historic conservation village and sits within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
The village as it is seen today is a model village laid out by 3rd Earl of Breadalbane in 1760. Kenmore Pier in Loch Tay was built for the Loch Tay Steamboat Company in 1882 by a workforce of 14 men to the designs of the engineer John Strain, C.E. of Glasgow. The transverse and longitudinal beams rested on piles 30 feet (9.1 m) long sunk 9 feet ...
Comrie (/ ˈ k ʌ m r i /; [2] Gaelic: Cuimridh; Pictish: Aberlednock; Latin: Victoria) is a village and parish in the southern Highlands of Scotland, towards the western end of the Strathearn district of Perth and Kinross, 7 mi (11 km) west of Crieff. Comrie is a historic conservation village in a national scenic area along the river Earn.
This article is a list of any town, village, hamlet or settlement, in the Highland council area of Scotland. The area encompassed by the Highland council is smaller than that encompassed by the Scottish Highlands. For the Scottish Gaelic equivalents of the place names in this list, see the appropriate section at List of Scottish Gaelic place names
Dull (Scottish Gaelic: Dul, pronounced) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. [1] It is paired with Boring, Oregon . Bland , New South Wales , Australia, is also a member of the League of Extraordinary Communities established by Boring and Dull in 2013.