Mellon Charles
Mellon Charles is a remote crofting village on Rubha Mòr on the north east shore of Loch Ewe near Gairloch in Wester Ross, in the Highland council area of Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger McLachlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Isle of Ewe.
Isle of Ewe
Island
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The Isle of Ewe is a small Scottish island on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty. The island is inhabited by a single extended family, the Grants, who have lived at the current settlement on the leeward NE side of the island since the 19th century. Isle of Ewe is situated 1½ miles south of Mellon Charles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ormiscaig and Aultbea.
Ormiscaig
Hamlet
Ormiscaig is a remote crofting village on the north east shore of Loch Ewe in Achnasheen, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The village of Mellon Charles is less than one mile west along the coast road.
Aultbea
Village
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aultbea is a small coastal fishing village in the North-West Highlands of Scotland. It is situated on the southeast shore of Loch Ewe, about 30 kilometres west of Ullapool. Aultbea is situated 2 miles southeast of Mellon Charles.
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 2½ miles west of Mellon Charles.
Mellon Charles
- Type: Village with 80 residents
- 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
57.85915° or 57° 51′ 33″ northLongitude
-5.63183° or 5° 37′ 55″ westPopulation
80Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C9PV959+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 25302247OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642779Wikidata ID
Q2158926
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Mellon Charles” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mellon Charles”
- Dutch: “Mellon Charles”
- Irish: “Meallan Theàrlaich”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Meallan Theàrlaich”
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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 “Mellon Charles”. Photo: Roger McLachlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.