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Kinloss

Kinloss is a village in , Scotland. It is located near the shore of Findhorn Bay, around 3 miles from and 2.5 miles from . Northeast of the village is , formerly which opened on 1 April 1939.
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Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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  • 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.

Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Cistercian abbey at Kinloss in the county of , . 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 .

Photo: Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of in and is the largest surviving Pictish style cross-slab stone of its type in , standing 6.5 metres in height. is situated 1½ miles southwest of Kinloss.

Military installation
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a military installation located near the village of Kinloss, on the in the north of . Until 2012 it was a Royal Air Force station, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Findhorn Ecovillage and Findhorn.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The , known in the past as the Findhorn Community is an experimental intentional community project based at The Park, in , Scotland, near the village of .

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
is a village in , Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of Bay and immediately south of the . is 3 miles northwest of Kinloss, and about 5 miles by road from . is situated 2 miles northwest of Kinloss.

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in in northeast , 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

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
node 401779804
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2645388
Wiki­data ID
Q1012344
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Satellite Map

Discover Kinloss from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kinloss Post Office and Kinloss Park.

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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 “Kinloss”. Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.