Achiltibuie
Achiltibuie is a community straggling along the west coast of Ross and Cromarty, north of Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands. As well as the village, the name applies to all the coast between Achduart and Reiff, taking in the hamlets of Polglass, Polbain and Altandhu.- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Aichilidh Bhuidhe” and “Aichillidh Bhuidhe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch Vatachan.
Loch Vatachan
Lake
Loch Vatachan or more correctly in Gaelic Loch Bhatachan is a freshwater loch in Wester Ross, Scotland, just over a kilometre north of Achiltibuie. The name is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic bhàthaichean, meaning "of the byre" i.e.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polglass and Polbain.
Polglass
Village
Polglass is a long crofting township, lying on the north shore of the sea loch, Loch Broom in Ullapool Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Polbain
Village
Photo: Ann Hodgson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polbain is a remote crofting township, located on the north Badentarbat Bay on the west coast of Scotland, in western Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Polbain is situated 2 miles northwest of Achiltibuie.
Coigach
Locality
Photo: paddy heron, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coigach is a peninsula north of Ullapool, in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The area consists of a traditional crofting and fishing community of a couple of hundred houses located between mountain and shore on a peninsula looking over the Summer Isles and the sea. Coigach is situated 2½ miles northwest of Achiltibuie.
Achiltibuie
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.0201° or 58° 1′ 12″ northLongitude
-5.343° or 5° 20′ 35″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ACEOpen location code
9CCP2MC4+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1264241968OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2657737Wikidata ID
Q340334
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Achiltibuie” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Achiltibuie”
- Breton: “Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
- Cornish: “Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
- Dutch: “Achiltibuie”
- French: “Achiltibuie”
- German: “Achiltibuie”
- Irish: “Achd Ille Bhuidhe”
- Irish: “Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
- Irish: “Aichillidh Bhuidhe”
- Manx: “Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Achd Ille Bhuidhe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aichillidh Bhuidhe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aichillidh Buidhe”
- Swedish: “Achiltibuie”
- Welsh: “Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
- “Achiltibuie”
- “Achiltibuie - Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
- “Aichilidh Bhuidhe”
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