Findhorn
Findhorn is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of Findhorn Bay and immediately south of the Moray Firth. Findhorn is 3 miles northwest of Kinloss, and about 5 miles by road from Forres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kinloss Abbey and Kinloss Barracks.
Kinloss Abbey
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kinloss Abbey is a Cistercian abbey at Kinloss in the county of Moray, Scotland. 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 Holyrood Abbey. Kinloss Abbey is situated 2½ miles southeast of Findhorn.
Kinloss Barracks
Military installation
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinloss Barracks is a military installation located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. Until 2012 it was a Royal Air Force station, RAF Kinloss. Kinloss Barracks is situated 2 miles east of Findhorn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Findhorn Ecovillage and Kinloss.
Findhorn Ecovillage
Hamlet
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The Findhorn Ecovillage, known in the past as the Findhorn Community is an experimental intentional community project based at The Park, in Moray, Scotland, near the village of Findhorn.
Kinloss
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinloss is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located near the shore of Findhorn Bay, around 3 miles from Findhorn and 2.5 miles from Forres. Northeast of the village is Kinloss Barracks, formerly RAF Kinloss which opened on 1 April 1939. Kinloss is situated 2 miles southeast of Findhorn.
Forres
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, 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.
Findhorn
- Type: Village with 890 residents
- Description: village in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.65911° or 57° 39′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.6107° or 3° 36′ 39″ westPopulation
890Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9C9RM95Q+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1609364433OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2649438Wikidata ID
Q1011578
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Findhorn” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ֆինդհորն”
- Basque: “Findhorn”
- Bulgarian: “Финдхорн”
- Cebuano: “Findhorn”
- Danish: “Findhorn”
- Dutch: “Findhorn”
- Finnish: “Findhorn”
- French: “Findhorn”
- German: “Findhorn”
- Hebrew: “פינדהורן”
- Irish: “Inbhir Éireann”
- Irish: “Inbhir Èireann”
- Italian: “Findhorn”
- Japanese: “フィドホーン”
- Japanese: “フィンドホーン”
- Portuguese: “Findhorn”
- Scots: “Findhorn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Findhorn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Èireann”
- Spanish: “Findhorn”
- Swedish: “Findhorn”
- Ukrainian: “Фіндгорн”
- Welsh: “Findhorn”
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