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The Glencarron Estate is a 12,000 acre highland estate in Wester Ross. [1] It provides sports facilities for fishing (river and loch) and grouse shooting. Several cottages and lodges are available for holiday lets. [1]
Loch a' Bhaid-luachraich (Loch of the Clump of Rushes) is a large shallow freshwater loch located directly south of Aultbea in Wester Ross. [2] [1] Loch a' Bhaid-luachraich can almost be considered as two irregular shaped lochs connected by a narrow channel. [1]
Diabaig (Scottish Gaelic: Dìobaig) is a remote coastal fishing and crofting township in Wester Ross, in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. [1] Diabaig lies on the north shore of the sea loch of Loch Diabaig, an inlet off the north side of Loch Torridon, and is in the Highland council area. [2] The main part of the settlement is known as ...
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.
On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring port by the British Fisheries Society. [7] It was designed by Thomas Telford.Prior to 1788 the town was only an insignificant hamlet made up of just over 20 households. [8]
In January 2017, it was announced that Kishorn Port Ltd had been awarded £500,000 to test and revamp the dry dock gates. The East gate has not been moved since 1992 when the caissons for the Skye Bridge were built in the dry dock. The West gate has not been moved since the Maureen Articulated Loading Column ("ALC") vacated the dock in 1982.
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The village was founded in 1800 [3] with a view to training up seamen for war against Napoleon.After his (initial) defeat and exile to Elba, the community found itself a new role as a fishing village.