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Forres

Forres is a town in in northeast , with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Forres railway station and Sueno’s Stone.

Railway station
Photo: Chris Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Forres, in . The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen–Inverness line, between and , measured 119 miles 42 chains from via the Dava route.

Photo: Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres in and is the largest surviving Pictish style cross-slab stone of its type in , standing 6.5 metres in height.

Museum
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a inactive Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery located in Forres, , Scotland. Dallas Dhu means "Black Water Valley" in Gaelic.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kinloss and Rafford.

Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Scotland. It is located near the shore of Findhorn Bay, around 3 miles from and 2.5 miles from Forres. Northeast of the village is , formerly which opened on 1 April 1939. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Forres.

Village
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is a village in , Scotland. It is approximately 2.5 miles southeast of the town of Forres, and 5.5 miles northwest of the village of . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Forres.

Village
is a small village in Moray, Scotland 3 miles north-west of Forres. It is located in the parish of and Moy,… is situated 2½ miles west of Forres.

Forres

Latitude
57.6099° or 57° 36′ 36″ north
Longitude
-3.6132° or 3° 36′ 48″ west
Population
10,000
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
IATA airport code
FSS
United Nations Location Code
GB FRS
Open location code
9C9RJ95P+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21532920
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649192
Wiki­data ID
Q1010531
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Forres” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Forres”
  • Basque: “Forres”
  • Bengali: “ফোরেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Форес”
  • Catalan: “Forres”
  • Cebuano: “Forres”
  • Chinese: “佛雷斯（Forres）”
  • Chinese: “佛雷斯”
  • Chinese: “富勒斯”
  • Chinese: “福萊斯”
  • Chinese: “福里斯”
  • Dutch: “Forres”
  • French: “Forres”
  • German: “Forres”
  • Gujarati: “ફૉરેસ”
  • Hebrew: “פורס”
  • Hungarian: “Forres”
  • Irish: “Farrais”
  • Italian: “Forres”
  • Japanese: “フォレス”
  • Kannada: “ಫೋರ್ರ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “포레스”
  • Lithuanian: “Foresas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Forres”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forres”
  • Norwegian: “Forres”
  • Persian: “فورس، ماری”
  • Persian: “فورس”
  • Polish: “Forres”
  • Portuguese: “Forres”
  • Russian: “Форрес”
  • Scots: “Forres”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Farrais”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Forres”
  • Spanish: “Forres”
  • Swedish: “Forres”
  • Tamil: “போர்ரெஸ்”
  • Telugu: “ఫోర్రెస్”
  • Turkish: “Forres”
  • Urdu: “فوریس”
  • Welsh: “Forres”

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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 “Forres”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.