Strone
Strone is a small hamlet in the administrative county of the Scottish Highlands and in the historic county of Inverness-shire. It lies on the foot of the hill, Creag na h-Iolaire, in Glen Urquhart within the Great Glen, and the closest settlement to Urquhart Castle, which lies down the hill to the East.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle.
Loch Ness
Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Loch Ness is a lake or loch which runs for 23 miles along the fault line of the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands. It's a mile wide, very deep, and dark with peat.
Urquhart Castle
Castle
Photo: Klaus with K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Urquhart Castle is a ruined castle that sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres southwest of Inverness and two kilometres east of Drumnadrochit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lewiston and Drumnadrochit.
Lewiston
Village
Photo: Richard Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lewiston is a small linear village, situated less than 1 mile southeast of Drumnadrochit, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
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.
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 2½ miles west of Strone.
Strone
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Urquhart and Glenmoriston, Highland, Scotland
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.3272° or 57° 19′ 38″ northLongitude
-4.44662° or 4° 26′ 48″ westElevation
299 feet (91 metres)Open location code
9C9Q8HG3+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 9839104724OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13273982Wikidata ID
Q113883027
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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 “Strone”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.