Insh
Insh is a village in Highland, Scotland that lies on the east coast of the Insh Marshes. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey area, around 3+1⁄2 miles east of Kingussie, in the Spey valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Highland Wildlife Park and Speyside distillery.
Highland Wildlife Park
Zoo
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Highland Wildlife Park is a 105-hectare safari park and zoo in Kingussie, Highland, Scotland. The park is located within the Cairngorms National Park.
Speyside distillery
Distillery
Speyside distillery was a Scotch whisky distillery near the hamlet of Drumguish in the Speyside region of Scotland, close to the village of Kingussie. It produced SPEY and Beinn Dubh single malts, and Byron's Gin. Speyside distillery is situated 2 miles southwest of Insh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kincraig and Kingussie.
Kincraig
Village
Photo: Paul Beard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kincraig is a village located north of Kingussie and south of Aviemore in Highland, Scotland. Its original name was Boat of Inch, reflecting the ferry boat crossing of the Spey River that once operated here but the name was changed after a single track bridge was erected in 1871. Kincraig is situated 2½ miles north of Insh.
Kingussie
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kingussie is a town in Speyside in the central Scottish Highlands, with a population of 1470 in 2020. The Spey valley here broadens into a "strath" as it emerges from the hills, and turns north.
Alvie
Hamlet
Photo: Eileen Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alvie is a small crofting hamlet, a working Scottish highland estate and civil parish, located on the south shore of Loch Alvie in the Badenoch and Strathspey area of Inverness-shire, within the Scottish council area of Highland. Alvie is situated 6 miles northeast of Insh.
Insh
- Type: Village
- 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
57.09071° or 57° 5′ 27″ northLongitude
-3.95827° or 3° 57′ 30″ westElevation
794 feet (242 metres)Open location code
9C9R32RR+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 513956337OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Slovenian—“Insh” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Insh”
- Dutch: “Insh”
- Irish: “Am Baile Úr”
- Irish: “Am Baile Ùr”
- Irish: “Baile Ùr Sgìre Innis”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Ùr Sgìre Innis”
- Slovenian: “Insh”
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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 “Insh”. Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.