Ardersier
Ardersier is a small former fishing village in the Scottish Highlands on the Moray Firth near Fort George, between Inverness and Nairn. Its name may be an anglicisation of the Gaelic "Àird nan Saor", or "Headland of the joiners", one local legend being that…Photo: Braveheart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,150 residents
- Description: village in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Àird nan Saor” and “Campbelltown”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ardersier, War Memorial and Inverness Airport.
Inverness Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Braveheart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Inverness Airport is an international airport situated at Dalcross, Scotland, 7 NM north-east of Inverness. It is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. Inverness Airport is situated 1½ miles south of Ardersier.
Cromal Mount
Archaeological site
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cromal Mount is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tornagrain and Rosemarkie.
Tornagrain
Village
Photo: Richard Birchall, CC BY 2.0.
Tornagrain is a hamlet and planned village in the Scottish Highlands, situated around 7 miles northeast of Inverness. It falls within the Highland council area for local government purposes. Tornagrain is situated 3 miles south of Ardersier.
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. Rosemarkie is situated 3½ miles northwest of Ardersier.
Clephanton
Hamlet
Clephanton is a small hamlet 2 miles south-east from Ardersier and 7 miles south-west of Nairn in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands. It is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Clephanton is situated 3½ miles southeast of Ardersier.
Ardersier
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.56765° or 57° 34′ 4″ northLongitude
-4.03655° or 4° 2′ 12″ westPopulation
1,150Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ARSOpen location code
9C9QHX97+39OpenStreetMap ID
node 401533696OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Ardersier” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ardersier”
- Bulgarian: “Ардерсиер”
- Cebuano: “Ardersier”
- Chinese: “阿德西爾”
- Dutch: “Ardersier”
- French: “Ardersier”
- German: “Ardersier”
- Irish: “Àird nan Saor”
- Italian: “Ardersier”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ardersier”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ardersier”
- Norwegian: “Ardersier”
- Portuguese: “Ardersier”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Àird nan Saor”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ardersier”
- Slovenian: “Ardersier”
- Spanish: “Ardersier”
- Swedish: “Ardersier”
- Welsh: “Àird nan Saor”
- Welsh: “Ardersier”
- “Àird nan Saor”
- “Ardersier”
- “Ardersier - Àird nan Saor”
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Notable Places Nearby
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