Inveran
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carbisdale Castle and Falls of Shin.
Carbisdale Castle
Castle
Photo: Malc McDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carbisdale Castle was built in 1907 for the Duchess of Sutherland on a hill across the Kyle of Sutherland from Invershin in the Scottish Highlands. From 1945 to 2011 it was used as a youth hostel, operated by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.
Falls of Shin
Waterfall
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Falls of Shin is a waterfall on the River Shin, in northern Scotland, near the villages of Bonar Bridge and Lairg. Falls of Shin had a popular visitor centre, managed as part of Balnagown Estates, a company owned by former Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Invershin railway station
Railway station
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Invershin railway station is a railway station in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 61 miles 34 chains from Inverness, between Culrain and Lairg. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Invershin and Culrain.
Invershin
Village
Photo: Andrew Longton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Invershin is a scattered village in the Parish of Creich, 6 miles south of Lairg and 4 miles north of Bonar Bridge in the south of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Culrain
Village
Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Culrain is a small village in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. In 1650, the Battle of Carbisdale took place just outside the village. Culrain is situated 1½ miles south of Inveran.
Gruids
Hamlet
Gruids is a small remote hamlet, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. Gruids is situated 4 miles north of Inveran.
Inveran
- Type: Hamlet
- 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
57.94368° or 57° 56′ 37″ northLongitude
-4.40832° or 4° 24′ 30″ westElevation
98 feet (30 metres)Open location code
9C9QWHVR+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 10599874371OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Japanese—“Inveran” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Inveran”
- Dutch: “Inveran”
- Irish: “Inbhirean”
- Japanese: “インヴァラン”
- Japanese: “インベラン”
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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 “Inveran”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.