Lairg
Lairg is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin. Lairg is unusual in the northern Highlands in being a large settlement that is not on the coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dorcas Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lairg railway station.
Lairg railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lairg railway station is a railway station just south of the village of Lairg in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 66 miles 78 chains from Inverness, between Invershin and Rogart. Lairg railway station is situated 1½ miles south of Lairg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gruids and Muie.
Gruids
Hamlet
Gruids is a small remote hamlet, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. Gruids is situated 2 miles southwest of Lairg.
Muie
Hamlet
Muie is a remote village, situated in Rogart, eastern Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The village of Ardachu lies less than 0.5 miles to the south with the village of Lairg lying 5 miles west along the main A839 road, with the villages of Pittentrail and Morvich lying east along the A839. Muie is situated 6 miles east of Lairg.
Inveran
Hamlet
Inveran is a small village in the Parish of Creich located in the Sutherland region of the Highland Council area of Scotland. It is situated on the A837 at the head of the Dornoch Firth and the site of the Shin Hydro-electric Power Station. Inveran is situated 6 miles south of Lairg.
Lairg
- Type: Village with 967 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
58.02563° or 58° 1′ 32″ northLongitude
-4.39964° or 4° 23′ 59″ westPopulation
967Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LRGOpen location code
9CCQ2JG2+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 444631444OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Lairg” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lairg”
- Bulgarian: “Лаирг”
- Catalan: “Lairg”
- Cebuano: “Lairg”
- Chinese: “莱尔格”
- Chinese: “萊爾格”
- Dutch: “Lairg”
- French: “Lairg”
- German: “Lairg”
- Irish: “An Luirg”
- Irish: “Luirg”
- Italian: “Lairg”
- Japanese: “レーグ”
- Japanese: “レアグ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lairg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lairg”
- Norwegian: “Lairg”
- Scots: “Lairg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Luirg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lairg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Luirg”
- Swedish: “Lairg”
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