Lewiston
Lewiston is a small linear village, situated less than 1 mile southeast of Drumnadrochit, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Lewiston, Highland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Urquhart Castle and Glen Urquhart High School.
Urquhart Castle
Castle
Photo: Klaus with K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Urquhart Castle is a ruined castle that sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres southwest of Inverness and two kilometres east of Drumnadrochit.
Glen Urquhart High School
School
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Glen Urquhart High School is a six-year comprehensive secondary school situated in Drumnadrochit. The school's primary catchment area ranges from Abriachan in the north to Invermoriston in the south, and as far west as Cannich and Tomich.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drumnadrochit and Strone.
Drumnadrochit
Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.
Drumnadrochit is a village in the Great Glen, the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands. With a population of 1130 in 2020, it stands on the west shore of Loch Ness at the outlet of the River Enrick.
Strone
Hamlet
Strone is a small hamlet in the administrative county of the Scottish Highlands and in the historic county of Inverness-shire. It lies on the foot of the hill, Creag na h-Iolaire, in Glen Urquhart within the Great Glen, and the closest settlement to Urquhart Castle, which lies down the hill to the East.
Milton
Village
Photo: Robert Bone, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milton is a village in Glenurquhart, to the west of the village of Drumnadrochit, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies on the north side of the River Enrick, next to the A831 road.
Lewiston
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.32749° or 57° 19′ 39″ northLongitude
-4.47439° or 4° 28′ 28″ westElevation
115 feet (35 metres)Open location code
9C9Q8GGG+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 9425603860OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to German—“Lewiston” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lewiston”
- Dutch: “Lewiston”
- German: “Lewiston”
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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 “Lewiston”. Photo: Richard Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.