Achinduich
Achinduich is a hamlet on the east bank of the River Shin in the Scottish Highlands about 4 miles south of Lairg, Sutherland. It is in the Highland Council area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Falls of Shin and Lairg railway station.
Falls of Shin
Waterfall
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Falls of Shin is a waterfall on the River Shin, in northern Scotland, near the villages of Bonar Bridge and Lairg. Falls of Shin had a popular visitor centre, managed as part of Balnagown Estates, a company owned by former Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Lairg railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lairg railway station is a railway station just south of the village of Lairg in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 66 miles 78 chains from Inverness, between Invershin and Rogart. Lairg railway station is situated 2½ miles north of Achinduich.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inveran and Gruids.
Inveran
Hamlet
Inveran is a small village in the Parish of Creich located in the Sutherland region of the Highland Council area of Scotland. It is situated on the A837 at the head of the Dornoch Firth and the site of the Shin Hydro-electric Power Station. Inveran is situated 1½ miles south of Achinduich.
Gruids
Hamlet
Gruids is a small remote hamlet, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. Gruids is situated 2½ miles north of Achinduich.
Invershin
Village
Photo: Andrew Longton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Invershin is a scattered village in the Parish of Creich, 6 miles south of Lairg and 4 miles north of Bonar Bridge in the south of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Invershin is situated 3 miles south of Achinduich.
Achinduich
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.96668° or 57° 58′ 0″ northLongitude
-4.40109° or 4° 24′ 4″ westElevation
430 feet (131 metres)Open location code
9C9QXH8X+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 9102059709OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Achinduich” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Achinduich”
- Dutch: “Achinduich”
- French: “Achinduich”
- Irish: “Achadh an Dabhaic”
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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 “Achinduich”. Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.