Dingwall
Dingwall is a town in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands, with a population in 2020 of 5360. Its name derives from the Scandinavian Þingvöllr, a meeting-place, and it was once astride several transport routes.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 5,350 residents
- Description: town in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ballichal” and “Inverpeffer”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Victoria Park and Dingwall railway station.
Victoria Park
Stadium
Victoria Park, also known as the Global Energy Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is an all-seater football stadium in the town of Dingwall, Highland, Scotland. It is the home ground of Ross County, who currently play in the Scottish Championship.
Dingwall railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dingwall railway station serves Dingwall, Scotland. It is located just south of the junction of the Far North Line and the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, and is managed and served by ScotRail.
Ross Memorial Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ross Memorial Hospital is a health facility in Ferry Road, Dingwall, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland. It is a Category B listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maryburgh and Conon Bridge.
Maryburgh
Village
Photo: Brian MacLennan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maryburgh is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland, 2 miles south of Dingwall. It is situated on the northern bank of the River Conon. The village of Conon Bridge is on the other side of the river.
Conon Bridge
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Conon Bridge is a village in the Highland region of Scotland. The current Gaelic name is likely a neologism: the bridge was not built until the early 19th century and some early gravestones show the name sgudal or scuddle. Conon Bridge is situated 2 miles south of Dingwall.
Fodderty
Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fodderty is a small hamlet, close to Dingwall, Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The small hamlet of Bottacks is located 1 mile to the west, and just to the east is Brae or Brea, formed in 1777 from the lands of Davochcarn, Davochmaluag and Davochpollo. Fodderty is situated 2½ miles west of Dingwall.
Dingwall
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.5955° or 57° 35′ 44″ northLongitude
-4.4284° or 4° 25′ 42″ westPopulation
5,350Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DIWOpen location code
9C9QHHWC+5JOpenStreetMap ID
node 472206579OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Dingwall” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Dingwall”
- Basque: “Dingwall”
- Bengali: “ডিংওয়াল”
- Breton: “Inbhir Pheofharain”
- Bulgarian: “Дингуол”
- Catalan: “Dingwall”
- Cebuano: “Dingwall”
- Chinese: “丁沃尔”
- Chinese: “丁沃爾”
- Dutch: “Dingwall”
- Esperanto: “Dingwall”
- French: “Dingwall”
- German: “Dingwall”
- Gujarati: “ડિંગવૉલ”
- Irish: “Inbhir Pheofharain”
- Italian: “Dingwall”
- Japanese: “Dingwall市”
- Japanese: “ディングウォ―ル”
- Japanese: “ディングウォール”
- Japanese: “ディングウォール市”
- Kannada: “ಡಿಂಗ್ವಾಲ್”
- Korean: “딩월”
- Lithuanian: “Dingvolas”
- Manx: “Inver Peffer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dingwall”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dingwall”
- Norwegian: “Dingwall”
- Persian: “دینگوال”
- Polish: “Dingwall”
- Portuguese: “Dingwall”
- Russian: “Дингуолл”
- Scots: “Dingwal”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Chàil”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dingwall”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Pheofharain”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dingwall”
- Spanish: “Dingwall”
- Swedish: “Dingwall”
- Tamil: “டிங்கிவால்”
- Telugu: “డింగ్వాల్”
- Turkish: “Dingwall”
- Ukrainian: “Дінгволл”
- Urdu: “دینجوال”
- Vietnamese: “Dingwall”
- Welsh: “Dingwall”
- Welsh: “Inbhir Pheofharain”
- “Dingwall”
- “Dingwall - Inbhir Pheofharain”
- “Inbhir Pheofharain”
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