Carron
Carron is a small village on the north bank of the River Spey in Moray, Scotland. It was the site of an old distillery, the Imperial Distillery until the distillery closed in 1998 and was mothballed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Carron, Strathspey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carron Bridge and Dailuaine distillery.
Carron Bridge
Bridge
The Carron Bridge is a bridge at Carron in Moray, Scotland, which crosses the River Spey between the parishes of Knockando and Aberlour. It was built for the Strathspey Railway in 1863, to a design by Alexander Gibb, an engineer for the Great North of Scotland Railway, and fabricated by the iron founders William McKinnon and Co.
Dailuaine distillery
Distillery
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dailuaine distillery is a single malt whisky distillery in Charlestown-of-Aberlour, Strathspey, Scotland.
Knockando Woolmill
Photo: Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Knockando Woolmill is a historic woolmill in Moray, Scotland. Wool production has taken place at the site since at least the eighteenth century, and the surviving buildings house a number of pieces of historic machinery which are still in operation. Knockando Woolmill is situated 2 miles west of Carron.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Archiestown and Aberlour.
Archiestown
Village
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Archiestown is a small village in Moray, Scotland, named in honour of its founder Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk. It is a typical 18th century planned village with a grid street-plan and spacious square. Archiestown is situated 2 miles north of Carron.
Aberlour
Village
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Aberlour is a village in Moray, Scotland, 12 miles south of Elgin on the road to Grantown. The Lour burn is a tributary of the River Spey, and it and the surrounding parish are both named Aberlour, but the name is more commonly used in reference to the village which straddles the stream and flanks the Spey – although the full name of the village is Charlestown of Aberlour. Aberlour is situated 3 miles east of Carron.
Craigellachie
Village
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Craigellachie is a small village in Moray, Scotland, at the confluence of the River Spey and River Fiddich, in walking distance of the town of Aberlour. Craigellachie is situated 5 miles northeast of Carron.
Carron
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.4561° or 57° 27′ 22″ northLongitude
-3.29981° or 3° 17′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C9RFP42+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 5798129098OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2653668Wikidata ID
Q1045216
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Carron” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Carron (Strathspey)”
- Basque: “Carron”
- Bengali: “স্পাইসাইড গ্লেনলিভেট”
- Chinese: “卡朗”
- Dutch: “Carron, Speyside”
- French: “Carron”
- German: “Carron”
- Gujarati: “કેરન”
- Irish: “Carrann, Comhairle Mhoireibh”
- Irish: “Carrann”
- Japanese: “スペイサイド・グレンリヴェット”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾರನ್”
- Korean: “스페이시드 글렌리벳”
- Lithuanian: “Speisaid Glenlivetas”
- Portuguese: “Carron”
- Russian: “Кэррон”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Carrann, Srath Spè”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Carrann”
- Spanish: “Carron”
- Tamil: “கார்ன்”
- Telugu: “కార్రొన్”
- Urdu: “کارون”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Carron”. Photo: Ann Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.