A’ Chill
A' Chill was a village on Canna, in the Scottish Small Isles. The name means "the cell", referring to a Culdee church, and is often anglicised as "Kil-" in many other Scottish names.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “A‘ Chill” and “A’Chill”
- Postal code: PH44
Places of Interest
Highlights include Canna and Sanday.
Canna
Photo: Emoscopes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canna is the westernmost of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. It's joined by a road to the smaller tidal island of Sanday. Canna, Sanday and their surrounding skerries are managed by the National Trust for Scotland, and are run as a farm and conservation area.
Sanday
Island
Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sanday is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is a tidal island linked to its larger neighbour, Canna, via sandbanks at low tide, and also connected to the larger island by a bridge.
St Columba’s Church
Church
Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Columba's Church is a Category B listed building on the isle of Canna, in the Small Isles, Highland, Scotland.
A’ Chill
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.05762° or 57° 3′ 27″ northLongitude
-6.5008° or 6° 30′ 3″ westElevation
52 feet (16 metres)Open location code
9C9M3F5X+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 8922463654OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to South Azerbaijani—“A’ Chill” goes by many names.
- Basque: “A‘ Chill”
- Basque: “A’ Chill”
- Dutch: “A‘ Chill”
- Irish: “A‘ Chill”
- Irish: “A’ Chill”
- Persian: “آ چیل”
- South Azerbaijani: “آ چیل”
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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 “A’ Chill”. Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.