Fortrose
Fortrose is a town and former royal burgh on the Black Isle in the Highland council area of Scotland, about six miles northeast of Inverness. The town is known for its ruined 13th-century cathedral, and as the home of the Brahan Seer. Chanonry Point, a nearby headland projecting into the Moray Firth, is a popular location for dolphin spotting.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,680 residents
- Description: town in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “A‘ Chananaich”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortrose Cathedral and King George’s Fields.
Fortrose Cathedral
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fortrose Cathedral was the episcopal seat of the medieval Scottish diocese of Ross in the Highland region of Scotland near the city of Inverness. It is probable that the original site of the diocese was at Rosemarkie, but by the 13th century the canons had relocated a short distance to the south-west, to the site known as Fortrose or Chanonry.
King George’s Fields
Recreation area
A King George's Field is a public open space in the United Kingdom dedicated to the memory of King George V. In 1936, after the king's death, Sir Percy Vincent, the then–Lord Mayor of London, formed a committee to determine a memorial that was not solely based on the idea of a statue.
Groam House Museum
Museum
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Groam House Museum is a museum of Celtic and Pictish Art. Located in the village of Rosemarkie in the Black Isle, Scotland, its collection contains both the Rosemarkie Stone, one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone, and the Rosemarkie sculpture fragments, that are 14 stone fragments, the most well-known being Daniels Stone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fortrose and Rosemarkie and Rosemarkie.
Fortrose and Rosemarkie
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Fortrose and Rosemarkie are two small towns a mile apart on the Black Isle in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands. In 2020 Fortrose had a population of 1680 and Rosemarkie had 640.
Rosemarkie
Village
Photo: Ulrich Hartmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosemarkie is a village on the south coast of the Black Isle peninsula in Ross-shire, northern Scotland.
Avoch
Village
Photo: Keith Salvesen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avoch is a harbour-village located on the south-east coast of the Black Isle, on the Moray Firth. Avoch is situated 2 miles southwest of Fortrose.
Fortrose
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.58178° or 57° 34′ 54″ northLongitude
-4.1305° or 4° 7′ 50″ westPopulation
1,680Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FTROpen location code
9C9QHVJ9+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 26634876OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Fortrose” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fortrose”
- Basque: “Fortrose”
- Bulgarian: “Фортросе”
- Cebuano: “Fortrose”
- Chinese: “福特罗斯”
- Dutch: “Fortrose”
- French: “Fortrose”
- Irish: “A‘ Chananaich”
- Irish: “A’ Chananaich”
- Italian: “Fortrose”
- Japanese: “フォートローズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fortrose”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fortrose”
- Norwegian: “Fortrose”
- Persian: “فورتروز”
- Polish: “Fortrose”
- Scots: “Chainry”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Chananaich”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Chananaich”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fortrose”
- Spanish: “Fortrose”
- Swedish: “Fortrose”
- Welsh: “Fortrose”
- “A‘ Chananaich”
- “Fortrose”
- “Fortrose - A‘ Chananaich”
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