Badachro
Badachro is a former fishing village, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland.Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dry Island and Eilean Horrisdale.
Dry Island
Islet
Dry Island is an inhabited island in Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scotland, and part of the Inner Hebrides. Dry Island is translated from the Gaelic name for the Island "Eilean Tioram".
Eilean Horrisdale
Island
Photo: Chris Eilbeck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eilean Horrisdale is an uninhabited island in Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scotland.
Gairloch Museum
Museum
Photo: Macfack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gairloch Museum is an independent museum in the Wester Ross region of Scotland. The museum is located in the Highland village of Gairloch, in Achtercairn. Gairloch Museum is situated 2½ miles northeast of Badachro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Henderson and Charlestown.
Port Henderson
Village
Port Henderson is a fishing village on the south west shore of the Gair Loch near the village of Gairloch, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Port Henderson is situated 1½ miles west of Badachro.
Charlestown
Neighborhood
Charlestown is a small hamlet, making up one of the settlements which are collectively called Gairloch, and located 2 kilometres south of the main village of Gairloch, and overlooking the harbour area, on the west of Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Charlestown is situated 2 miles northeast of Badachro.
Gairloch
Photo: Dmacle2179, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gairloch is a straggling community along the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 620 in 2020. The land is hilly and farming isn't very productive, but shellfishing remains a traditional occupation.
Badachro
- Type: Village
- 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
57.69694° or 57° 41′ 49″ northLongitude
-5.72488° or 5° 43′ 30″ westElevation
59 feet (18 metres)Open location code
9C9PM7WG+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 25373501OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Badachro” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Badachro”
- Dutch: “Badachro”
- Irish: “Bad a‘ Chrò”
- Irish: “Bad a’ Chró”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bad a‘ Chrò”
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