Achmore
Achmore is a hamlet located close to the south shore of Loch Carron, approximately seven miles east of Plockton near Stromeferry in the historic county of Wester Ross and within the Highland council area, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village near Stromeferry, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Achmore, Highland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stromeferry railway station and Strome Castle.
Stromeferry railway station
Railway station
Photo: Brian MacLennan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stromeferry railway station is a station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Stromeferry in the Highlands, northern Scotland. Stromeferry lies on the southern shore of Loch Carron, across from the ruined Strome Castle, near the west coast.
Strome Castle
Ruins
Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strome Castle is a ruined castle on the shore of Loch Carron in Stromemore, 3.5 miles south-west of the village of Lochcarron, on the headland between Loch Carron and Loch Kishorn, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands.
Bad a’ Chreamha
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bad a' Chreamha is a small hill in Scotland, occupying the broad peninsula between Loch Carron and Loch Kishorn. It consists of a long low ridge; the northwestern side is marked by a series of broken crags, whilst to the south the hill slopes down to the shores of Loch Carron. Bad a’ Chreamha is situated 2 miles north of Achmore.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plockton and Auchtertyre.
Plockton
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plockton is a village on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 468 in 2020. In Scots slang a "plook" is a pimple, and The Plock is a small headland sheltering the harbour from the westerly weather.
Auchtertyre
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Auchtertyre is a village, lying half a mile from the north shore of Loch Alsh near Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Highlands and in the Scottish council area of the Highland Council. Auchtertyre is situated 4 miles south of Achmore.
Nostie
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nostie is a small remote hamlet, lying on Nostie Bay, an inlet at the northeastern end of the sea loch, Loch Alsh in the Scottish Highlands and is in the council area of Highland. Nostie is situated 4 miles south of Achmore.
Achmore
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.3421° or 57° 20′ 32″ northLongitude
-5.56405° or 5° 33′ 51″ westElevation
69 feet (21 metres)Open location code
9C9P8CRP+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2384567882OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Achmore” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Achmore”
- Dutch: “Achmore”
- Irish: “An Acha Mòr”
- Irish: “An t-Achadh Mòr”
- Swedish: “Achmore”
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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 “Achmore”. Photo: Trevor Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0.