Dyke
Dyke is a small village situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 4 miles west of Forres. The origin of the name of the parish of Dyke is supposed to be the Gaelic word dìg, signifying a water drain or ditch.Photo: Ann Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Dyke, Moray”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dyke Parish Church and Rodney’s Stone.
Dyke Parish Church
Church
Photo: Ann Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dyke Parish Church is a Georgian church in Dyke, a village in Moray. In active use by the Church of Scotland since it was built in 1781, it stands on the site of a mediaeval church, and incorporates an older mausoleum, which is now the church hall and vestry.
Rodney’s Stone
Photo: Calgacus, Public domain.
Rodney's Stone is a two-metre high Pictish cross slab now located close on the approach way to Brodie Castle, near Forres, Moray, Scotland. It was originally found nearby in the grounds of the old church of Dyke and Moy.
Darnaway Castle
Castle
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Darnaway Castle, also known as Tarnaway Castle, is located in Darnaway Forest, 3 miles southwest of Forres in Moray, Scotland. This was Comyn land, given to Thomas Randolph along with the Earldom of Moray by King Robert I. Darnaway Castle is situated 2 miles south of Dyke.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kintessack and Forres.
Kintessack
Village
Kintessack is a small village in Moray, Scotland 3 miles north-west of Forres. It is located in the parish of Dyke and Moy,…
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.
Auldearn
Village
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Auldearn is a village situated east of the River Nairn, just outside Nairn in the Highland council area of Scotland. It takes its name from William the Lion's castle of Eren, built there in the 12th century. Auldearn is situated 4½ miles southwest of Dyke.
Dyke
- Category: locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.60425° or 57° 36′ 15″ northLongitude
-3.69358° or 3° 41′ 37″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C9RJ834+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 401799042OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Dyke” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dyke”
- Dutch: “Dyke”
- French: “Dyke”
- German: “Dyke (Moray)”
- German: “Dyke”
- Irish: “Dìg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dìg”
- Swedish: “Dyke, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Dyke”
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Highlights include Dyke & District Village Hall and Oak Hill Wood.
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