Garve
Garve is a village on the Black Water river, in Ross-shire, and is in the Highland Council area of Scotland. It is situated 5 miles northwest of Contin, on the A835, the main road to Ullapool on the west coast, close to where the A832 branches off towards Achnasheen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garve railway station.
Garve railway station
Railway station
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Garve railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Garve in the north of Scotland. Garve is located at the eastern edge of Loch Garve, measured 11 miles 65 chains from Dingwall, and is the first stop on the line before Lochluichart.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Contin and Strathpeffer.
Contin
Village
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Contin is a Ross-shire village, and a civil parish and community council area between Strathpeffer and Garve in the Highland council area of Scotland. The parish has a population of 675. Contin is situated 5 miles southeast of Garve.
Strathpeffer
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Strathpeffer is a village in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 1040 in 2020. It has sulphurous springs and grew up in the 19th century as a spa resort, served by a branch railway line.
Achterneed
Hamlet
Photo: Brian MacLennan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Achterneed, also spelled Auchterneed, is a village in Highland, Scotland, lies within the environs of Castle Leod, seat of the Earl of Cromartie, two miles northeast of Strathpeffer. Achterneed is situated 6 miles east of Garve.
Garve
- 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
57.61618° or 57° 36′ 58″ northLongitude
-4.68952° or 4° 41′ 22″ westElevation
262 feet (80 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GAVOpen location code
9C9QJ886+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 26485629OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648797Wikidata ID
Q2619833
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Garve” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Garve”
- Dutch: “Garve”
- Irish: “Gairbh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gairbh”
- Swedish: “Garve”
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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 “Garve”. Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.