Kinloss
Kinloss is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located near the shore of Findhorn Bay, around 3 miles from Findhorn and 2.5 miles from Forres. Northeast of the village is Kinloss Barracks, formerly RAF Kinloss which opened on 1 April 1939.- Type: Village with 1,440 residents
- Description: village in Moray, Scotland, UK, on the east of Findhorn Bay
- Also known as: “Kinloss, Scotland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kinloss Abbey and Sueno’s Stone.
Kinloss Abbey
Kinloss Abbey is a Cistercian abbey at Kinloss in the county of Moray, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1150 by King David I "in order to extend the benefits of civilisation to the remoter regions under his sway." The legend of its founding is similar to that of the founding of Holyrood Abbey.Sueno’s Stone
Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres in Moray and is the largest surviving Pictish style cross-slab stone of its type in Scotland, standing 6.5 metres in height. Sueno’s Stone is situated 1½ miles southwest of Kinloss.Kinloss Barracks
Military installation
Kinloss Barracks is a military installation located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. Until 2012 it was a Royal Air Force station, RAF Kinloss.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Findhorn Ecovillage and Findhorn.
Findhorn Ecovillage
Hamlet
Findhorn
Village
Findhorn is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of Findhorn Bay and immediately south of the Moray Firth. Findhorn is 3 miles northwest of Kinloss, and about 5 miles by road from Forres. Findhorn is situated 2 miles northwest of Kinloss.
Forres
Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.Kinloss
- Category: locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.63486° or 57° 38′ 6″ north
Longitude
-3.57026° or 3° 34′ 13″ west
Population
1,440
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB KNL
Open location code
9C9RJCMH+WV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Kinloss” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kinloss”
- Cebuano: “Kinloss”
- Dutch: “Kinloss”
- French: “Kinloss”
- German: “Kinloss”
- Irish: “Ceann Lois”
- Irish: “Cinn Lois”
- Italian: “Kinloss”
- Japanese: “キンロス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kinloss”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinloss”
- Norwegian: “Kinloss”
- Portuguese: “Kinloss”
- Scots: “Kinloss”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cinn Lois”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kinloss”
- Spanish: “Kinloss”
- Swedish: “Kinloss”
- Welsh: “Kinloss”
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Highlights include Kinloss Post Office and Kinloss Park.
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