Gruids
Gruids is a small remote hamlet, in the council area of Highland, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lairg railway station.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lairg and Inveran.
Lairg
Village
Photo: Dorcas Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lairg is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin. Lairg is unusual in the northern Highlands in being a large settlement that is not on the coast. Lairg is situated 2 miles northeast of 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 4 miles south of Gruids.
Altass
Hamlet
Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Altass is a village in the Parish of Creich, near Lairg, Sutherland, within the Highland, Scotland, and is in the council area of Highland. Altass is situated 5 miles southwest of Gruids.
Gruids
- Type: Hamlet
- 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
58.00058° or 58° 0′ 2″ northLongitude
-4.42222° or 4° 25′ 20″ westElevation
240 feet (73 metres)Open location code
9CCQ2H2H+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 8986655358OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Gruids” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gruids”
- Dutch: “Gruids”
- Irish: “Na Grúidean”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gruids Mill and The Ord.
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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 “Gruids”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.