Nigg Bay
Nigg Bay is a large, relatively shallow sandy bay, consisting of mudflats, saltmarsh and wet grassland, located on the north east coast of the Cromarty Firth, 5 miles east of Invergordon, in the district of Ross and Cromarty and in the Scottish council area of Highland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nick Bramhall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parish Church, Kilmuir Easter and Nigg Stone.
Nigg Stone
Stone
Photo: Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Nigg Stone is an incomplete Class II Pictish cross-slab, perhaps dating to the end of the 8th century. The stone was originally located at the gateway to the grounds of the parish church of Nigg, Easter Ross, Scotland.
Tarbat House
Residential building
Photo: sylvia duckworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tarbat House is a Category A listed building in the Highland council area of northern Scotland. A three-story stone mansion in the neoclassical style, it was built in 1787 by the Edinburgh architect James McLeran for John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barbaraville and Nigg.
Barbaraville
Village
Photo: William Grierson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barbaraville is a small settlement on the north shore of Nigg Bay in the Cromarty Firth in the Highland council area of Scotland, and hisotrically split between Ross-shire and a portion of Cromartyshire.
Nigg
Village
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Nigg, is a village and parish in Easter Ross, administered by the Highland Council. It lies on the north shore of the entrance to the Cromarty Firth. The Cromarty Firth has long served as a deep-water harbour.
Cromarty
Town
Photo: Oyoyoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cromarty is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. Situated at the tip of the Black Isle on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth, it is 5 miles seaward from Invergordon on the opposite coast.
Nigg Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.71833° or 57° 43′ 6″ northLongitude
-4.06126° or 4° 3′ 41″ westOpen location code
9C9QPW9Q+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 698899912OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2641494Wikidata ID
Q3777152
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Nigg Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nigg Bay (luuk sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Highland)”
- Cebuano: “Nigg Bay”
- Irish: “Camas Neig”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nigg Bay”
- Spanish: “bahía Nigg”
- Spanish: “Bahía Nigg”
- Spanish: “Nigg Bay”
- Swedish: “Nigg Bay (vik i Storbritannien, Highland)”
- Swedish: “Nigg Bay”
- Welsh: “Bae Nigg”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kilmuir Easter, Parish Church, War Memorial and Milton Community Woodland.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nigg Bay”. Photo: Nick Bramhall, CC BY-SA 2.0.