Melvaig
Melvaig is a crofting township on the coast of western Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The houses are largely on a raised shoreline in Wester Ross and are scattered on the crofts into which the land was divided in 1846.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Dodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aultgrishan and Cove.
Aultgrishan
Hamlet
Aultgrishan is a small crofting community near Gairloch, Ross-shire. It adjoins Melvaig, within Highland region and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Cove
Hamlet
Photo: Kenneth Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cove is a remote hamlet located on the northwestern shore of the sea loch Loch Ewe, and 8 mi northwest of Poolewe in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Cove is situated 5 miles northeast of Melvaig.
Inverasdale
Village
Photo: Grwhitton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Inverasdale is a hamlet in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, located by Loch Ewe, in the region of Wester Ross. Inverasdale is situated 5 miles east of Melvaig.
Melvaig
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.81413° or 57° 48′ 51″ northLongitude
-5.80418° or 5° 48′ 15″ westElevation
177 feet (54 metres)Open location code
9C9PR57W+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 4018512965OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Dutch—“Melvaig” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Melvaig”
- Dutch: “Melvaig”
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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 “Melvaig”. Photo: Mike Dodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.