Balnain
Balnain is a small village in Glen Urquhart, Scotland, about 5 miles west of Drumnadrochit. It is mostly dependent on tourism, forestry, agriculture and farming.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Its snowing in East Asia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch Meiklie and St Ninian’s Church, Glen Urquhart.
Loch Meiklie
Photo: Andre van Loon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Meiklie is a freshwater loch in Inverness-shire, Scotland, 6.4 kilometres west of Drumnadrochit. The loch is situated on the River Enrick, which ~9.5km downstream flows into Loch Ness.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balbeg and Milton.
Balbeg
Hamlet
Balbeg is a clachan about 0.5 miles north-east of Balnain, 4 miles west of Drumnadrochit, Inverness-shire and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Milton
Village
Photo: Robert Bone, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milton is a village in Glenurquhart, to the west of the village of Drumnadrochit, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies on the north side of the River Enrick, next to the A831 road. Milton is situated 3 miles east of Balnain.
Drumnadrochit
Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.
Drumnadrochit is a village in the Great Glen, the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands. With a population of 1130 in 2020, it stands on the west shore of Loch Ness at the outlet of the River Enrick.
Balnain
- Type: Village with 300 residents
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.33778° or 57° 20′ 16″ northLongitude
-4.58202° or 4° 34′ 55″ westPopulation
300Elevation
400 feet (122 metres)Open location code
9C9Q8CQ9+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 9002110936OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6620351Wikidata ID
Q1886330
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Balnain” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Balnain”
- Bulgarian: “Балнаин”
- Cebuano: “Balnain”
- Chinese: “巴寧”
- Dutch: “Balnain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile an Fhàin”
- Swedish: “Balnain”
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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 “Balnain”. Photo: Its snowing in East Asia, Public domain.