Nigg
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 156 residents
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Nigg, Highland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nigg Stone and Tarbat House.
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. Tarbat House is situated 2½ miles northwest of Nigg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cromarty and Barbaraville.
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. Cromarty is situated 3 miles south of 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. Barbaraville is situated 3½ miles west of Nigg.
Shandwick
Village
Photo: Mike Baldwin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shandwick, a village near Tain in Easter Ross, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland, Scotland. Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick are known collectively as the Seaboard Villages. Shandwick is situated 4 miles northeast of Nigg.
Nigg
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.71875° or 57° 43′ 8″ northLongitude
-4.00892° or 4° 0′ 32″ westPopulation
156Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB NGGOpen location code
9C9QPX9R+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1608390854OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Nigg” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nigg”
- Chinese: “尼格”
- Dutch: “Nigg”
- Irish: “An Neag”
- Irish: “Neig”
- Japanese: “ニグ”
- Japanese: “ニッグ”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Neig”
- Swedish: “Nigg, Highland”
- Swedish: “Nigg”
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