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Broadford

Broadford is a village straggling along the main road across in the Scottish . All island routes converge here so you're bound to pass through it.
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  • Type: Village with 1,130 residents
  • Description: settlement on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Broadford, Skye”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mackinnon Memorial Hospital and Broadford Parish Church.

Hospital
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The former building is now vacant; it sits adjacent to the new Broadford Hospital, all services having moved into this new purpose built building in March 2022.

Church
Photo: Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, Skye is a parish church in the Church of Scotland in Broadford, Skye.

Pier
Photo: Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corry and Harrapool.

Hamlet
Photo: Lithobius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Broadford, together with nearby , is the second-largest settlement on the , . Lying in the shadow of the Red Cuillin mountains, Broadford is within the parish of Strath.

Hamlet
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the southeast coast of the , and is in the council area of Highland. It lies on the right-hand side of Broadford Bay, with the town of the bay to the east along the A87 road.

Hamlet
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the in .

Broadford

Latitude
57.241° or 57° 14′ 28″ north
Longitude
-5.9062° or 5° 54′ 22″ west
Population
1,130
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Open location code
9C9P63RV+CG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 282090795
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2654653
Wiki­data ID
Q922593
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Broadford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برودفورد”
  • Basque: “Broadford (Eskozia)”
  • Basque: “Broadford”
  • Catalan: “Broadford”
  • Cebuano: “Broadford”
  • Chinese: “布罗德福德”
  • Chinese: “布羅德福德”
  • Czech: “Broadford”
  • Dutch: “Broadford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروادفورد”
  • Finnish: “An t-Àth Leathann”
  • Finnish: “Broadford”
  • French: “Broadford”
  • German: “Broadford”
  • Greek: “Μπρόντφορντ”
  • Irish: “An t-Áth Leathann”
  • Irish: “An t-Àth Leathann”
  • Japanese: “ブロードフォード”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Broadford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Broadford på Skye”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Broadford”
  • Norwegian: “Broadford”
  • Persian: “براودفورد، اسکای”
  • Persian: “براودفورد، سکای”
  • Polish: “Broadford”
  • Portuguese: “Broadford”
  • Scots: “Broadford”
  • Scots: “Bruidford”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Àth Leathann”
  • Spanish: “Broadford”
  • Swedish: “Broadford, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Broadford”
  • Ukrainian: “Бродфорд”
  • “An t-Àth Leathann”
  • “Broadford”
  • “Broadford - An t-Àth Leathann”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Broadford”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.