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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] It is owned by Alasdair Douglas, chair of The Tree Council. [2]
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Fishing on the Little Gruinard. The Little Gruinard is a river in Wester Ross, Scotland which runs from the Fionn Loch into Gruinard Bay (famed for Gruinard Island).It lies within the Letterewe Estate, previously owned by Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, a Dutch businessman.
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] The harbour is used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port.
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 ...
The Dundonnell and Fisherfield Forest covers a large mountainous area of Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, lying between Loch Maree and Little Loch Broom. It is sometimes nicknamed The Great Wilderness, as the area is entirely devoid of permanent settlements. Although termed a forest the area has very few trees.
Alasdair was born in Glasgow to parents Norman and Kathleen Gillies and lived there for the first eleven years of his life before moving to Ullapool, a fishing village on the West of Scotland where his father took on the position of piping instructor for the schools in Wester Ross. [1]
Mellon Charles (Scottish Gaelic: Meallan Theàrlaich) is a remote crofting village on the north east shore of Loch Ewe near Gairloch in Wester Ross, in the Highland council area of Scotland. [ 1 ] The village of Ormiscaig is located less than one mile along the coast road.