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It has the greatest ascent of any road climb in the United Kingdom, rising from sea level at Applecross to 626 m (2,054 ft) in about 6 km (3.7 mi), and is the third highest road in Scotland. The name is Scottish Gaelic for Pass of the Cattle , as it was historically used as a drovers' road .
Drumnadrochit (/ d r ʌ m n ə ˈ d r ɒ x ɪ t /; Scottish Gaelic: Druim na Drochaid) is a village in the Highland local government council area of Scotland, lying near the west shore of Loch Ness at the foot of Glen Urquhart. [2] The village is close to several neighbouring settlements: the villages of Milton to the west, Kilmore to the east ...
Much of Glenurquhart was part of the Balmacaan Estate [2] [3] (AKA: The Glen Urquhart Estate), [4] owned by the Grant family of Seafield between 1509 and 1946. [2] [3] The estate It was rented to the wealthy American industrialist and local benefactor Bradley Martin late 19th and early 20th century [5] and flourished in the 1880s and 1890s, but went into decline after the 1920s.
Balnain (Scottish Gaelic: Baile an Fhàin) is a small village in Glenurquhart, Scotland, about 5 miles west of Drumnadrochit. It is mostly dependent on tourism, forestry, agriculture and farming. It is mostly dependent on tourism, forestry, agriculture and farming.
Here, a Highland Cow living in the American Midwest is seen only moments after giving birth to her calf. You can tell that this baby is only minutes old because the mother is engaged in bathing ...
Balbeg (Scottish Gaelic: Am Baile Beag) is a clachan (hamlet) about 0.5 miles (1 km) north-east of Balnain, 4 miles (6 km) west of Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire (in the Scottish Highlands) [2] and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Dornoch was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918.
It was the band's flagship event of Highland 2007, a series of cultural events to celebrate Highland culture and also seen as the realisation of growing desires to play a large open-air show in the Highlands, somewhat in commemoration to the legendary Loch Lomond open air concert of 1991, one of the undisputed highlights of the band's career.